News

by Professor Lydia Plowman

'Just Google it: digital literacy and the epistemology of ignorance'

Dr Ibrar Bhatt and Dr Alison MacKenzie, Queens University Belfast

This seminar took place on Tuesday 4th December at Moray House School of Education

CRDE Research Stay Write Up

Mitchell Peters, Open University of Catalonia (Barecelona)

Research Stay Purpose

Lead by Dr Andrew Sherlock, School of Engineering, the Centre for Research in Digital Education will contribute to this project to improve understanding of teaching, learning and assessment through augmented and mixed reality.

Augmented Reality (AR) allows digital content to be overlaid onto the physical environment, typically on devices such as glasses, tablets and smartphones.   More recently, semi-immersive Mixed Reality (MR) devices, usually headsets (e.g. Microsoft Hololens), allow 3D holograms to be placed in the physical environment.

'Gadamer, Bakhtin and dialogic space: implications for teaching and learning in the digital age'

This seminar took place on Tuesday 6th November at Moray House School of Education.  Watch Peter's seminar via Media Hopper

This seminar is jointly hosted by the Community Education Research Group and the Centre for Research in Digital Education.

Michael Gallagher, Lecturer in Digital Education

What is your role in the Centre for Research in Digital Education?

'Teach Computing Science: A Guide for Early Years and Primary Practitioners' delivered across Scotland

Primary school teachers across Scotland will be getting a free printed copy of Teach Computing Science: A Guide for Early Years and Primary Practitioners this week. It's a guide to teaching the new Computing Education aspects of the Technologies curriculum in Curriculum for Excellence to help teachers who need an in depth introduction to the new expectations and outcomes.

The Centre for Research in Digital Education welcomes Mitchell Peters from the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona)

Mitchell will be based with us at Moray House School of Education from October to December 2018.

Jen Ross, Jon Turner, Michael Gallagher and Hamish Macleod, September 2018

In early September 2018, members of the Digital Education research centre travelled to Istanbul to lead a three-day workshop on online teaching for a group of academics displaced to Turkey by the Syria crisis. The visit was orchestrated by Jon Turner, director of the Institute for Academic Development and one of the University of Edinburgh’s key links with the workshop organisers: the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara - https://www.cara.ngo/).

Exploring Divergence and Congruence between Learning and Assessment Practices in University and Professional Workplaces