How technology, culture, learning and policy intersect within research and practice in digital education.

Events

Enacting and sharing digital practices in the early years

Seminar
Decorative image of a black and white tree, with a blue cloud, blue flower and pink swan.

Join us for Professor Susan Edwards' seminar on enacting and sharing children's digital practices. The seminar provides an overview of a large Australian Research Council Linkage Project based on the Early Childhood Australia Statement on Young Children and Digital Technologies.

News

MSc Digital Education student shares his experience

 

The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Edinburgh asked some of its students to share their experiences of being enrolled in online learning programmes at our university. 

Digital Education Programme staff spotlight series: James Lamb and Janja Komljenovic

The Centre for Research in Digital Education are running the Digital Education Programme Staff Spotlight Series, a series of events to highlight our Digital Education Programme, which offers MSc, PGDip, and PGCert pathways at University of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education and Sport. On 20 November between 10.30 and 11.00, the third staff spotlight event will host James Lamb and Janja Komljenovic.

Research Strand Announcement: Digital Education in the Global South

The Centre for Research in Digital Education are thrilled to announce the creation of a fifth research strand: Digital Education in the Global South, directed by Dr Michael Gallagher.

Call for Abstracts: The European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies (ECCES)

Centre colleague Ben Williamson is coorganising the first edition of the European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies (ECCES), which will take place at the Zurich University of Teacher Education on 18-20 June 2025. The Call for Abstracts is open until the 15th December 2024 (8pm CET).

Digital Education Programme Staff spotlight series: Michael Gallagher and Clara O'Shea

The Centre for Research in Digital Education are running the Digital Education Programme Staff Spotlight Series, a series of events to highlight our Digital Education Programme. On 30 October between 14.00 and 14.30, the second staff spotlight event will host Dr Michael Gallagher and Clara O'Shea.

Exhibition: Can AI Represent Care?

Centre doctoral student Melody Wang is organising an eye-opening exhibition featuring images of care created by older adults and generated by AI.

About
The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and conducts research, knowledge exchange and consultancy in key areas including digital education pedagogy and policy, open education, children and technology, learning analytics and museum learning.
Engagement
We work with many partner universities as well as policymakers, the cultural heritage sector, schools and other public and private sector organisations. Our partners value us for our critical approach to learning, teaching and technology in formal and informal education, and for the ways in which we combine our research with world-leading practice in digital education.