Our teaching is focused on doctoral supervision and online, distance teaching on our MSc in Digital Education (also offering PgDip and PgCert exit pathways). Centre colleagues also lead on the MSc Education Futures at the Edinburgh. Scroll down to explore these and further examples of our teaching offer.
Postgraduate study
Digital Education (MSc, PgDip, PgCert)
We run a fully online, distance postgraduate programme in Digital Education, offering three exit pathways: MSc, PgDip, PgCert. Fully informed by the research emerging from the Centre and many of the researchers who generated it, the programme is distinctive for the innovative and experimental nature, its breadth of scope, the high levels of support provided to students and its basis in the research activity of the team. Find out more on our dedicated page: Digital Education programme (MSc,PgDip, PgCert). Learn more about the types of work that students on the programme produce by exploring our showcase.
MSc Education Futures
A suite of new interdisciplinary Masters programmes has been created as part of the work of the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Centre colleagues are leading the MSc in Education Futures, delivered in an innovative fusion mode and aimed at preparing students from across a range of education and learning contexts to think and act critically towards possible futures for knowledge, education and learning. Building on a shared core of data and creative courses, Education Futures course topics include the future of learning organisations, educating for a challenging future, personalisation and surveillance, ethical edtech, resilience, relationality and future work.
Children and Technology course (MSc Education)
The Children and Technology module on the MSc Education provides an introduction to understanding, analysing, and critically evaluating the role of technology for children in the Early Years and up until the end of Primary school age (0-11 years) in home, school and other contexts. The course will cover the role of technology in children’s everyday lives and the more explicit use of technology to enhance learning, including children learning to be creators, as well as critical consumers, of technology. Find out more: MSc Education course descriptions.
Doctoral studies
We welcome enquiries from potential PhD students who wish to conduct work aligning with the research themes of the Centre and its members. If you have a specific proposal to discuss, please contact the most appropriate academic member of the Centre direct. For general enquiries about doctoral study with us, please contact DEresearch@ed.ac.uk.
Undergraduate study
MA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Futures
Dr David Overend, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary study, runs this interdisciplinary programme at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. The programme is designed to develop key employability skills and collaborative experiences, focused on global and local challenges, and linked to cutting-edge research and the big future issues facing our planet and societies. Full information about the programme is available here.
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Our own MOOC was the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC, and we have collaborated on several others including the Warhol MOOC run from ECA, and the Photography: a Victorian Sensation MOOC run in partnership with the National Museums of Scotland.
