A new Children and Technology project has been announced among the thirty-six successful projects that will share £32.4m from the UKRI’s cross-research council responsive mode round 1 pilot scheme, designed to stimulate exciting new interdisciplinary research.
Three Ugandan Digital Education practitioners share with Edinburgh Global how their participation in the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program and the MSc in Digital Education shaped their work at their home institutions.
James Garthford, Benedetta Catanzariti, and Meenakshi Mani shared their experience designing and teaching this intensive course at the intersection of social science and computer science.
James Lamb, Lecturer in Digital Education, and colleagues participated in the 2024 Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, where they discussed three chapters from "Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards Convivial, Equitable and Sustainable Spaces for Learning", a new book edited by James Lamb and Lucila Carvalho and published by Springer.
In September, the Centre is welcoming a visiting scholar: Dr Jillianne Code, director of the ALIVE Research Lab at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
Dr Janja Komljenovic was invited as an expert to the Geneva Human Rights Dialogue on the Right to Education, where she spoke on the impact of digitalisation on this universal human right.