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This post focuses on partner building and market research for a novel early learning technology design: The Magic Cloud. The Magic Cloud is an Internet of Things platform linking soft toys to digital animations. Key to this project is building partnerships with local education focused organisations, such as Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh Zoo, or Glasgow Science Centre.
Policy networks, performance metrics, and market-making: charting the expanding data infrastructure of higher education
This seminar was held on 12th October 2018 at Moray House School of Education. Watch Ben's seminar via Media Hopper
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'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.
The Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) project ‘Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education' examines the impact of lecture recording on the inclusivity of teaching and learning at the university. The research team has been interviewing students and staff across the institution, reflecting on inclusion (of themselves and others) and commenting on perceived benefits and drawbacks related to the lecture recording service.
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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/).
My research (supervised by Andrew Manches and Michael Seery) is investigating the ways in which STEM students learn abstract scientific concepts requiring visuospatial imagistic reasoning and how this can be supported by digital technology.
This seminar was held on 24th August 2018 at Moray House School of Education. Watch Greg's seminar via Media Hopper
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Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education
Dr Yuchen Wang
In July, we produced a mid-term report on the progress of the project. Some initial findings, based on the completed interviews with students and staff, are:
1) Students who inevitably miss lectures due to various reasons, such as childcare responsibilities, health issues or clashes of timetables, identify lecture recording as the most convenient and effective way to keep on track with their studies.