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Project Update: Inclusive Education and Lecture Recording
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.
Online teaching workshop for Syrian academics in Turkey
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
Exploring Divergence and Congruence between Learning and Assessment Practices in University and Professional Workplaces
Vox pops on robots
Children's thoughts on teaching automation
Will robots take over teaching at schools? What aspects of teaching will they be good or bad at? This video is based on a series of vox pops that invited children to tell us about their thoughts on robots in general, what it would be like to have a robot teacher, and what might a robot be like in twenty years from now.
'I think they're quite intelligent'
'Weird'
'Might be a bit better at teaching becuase they know more answers to things'
Seminar Recording: Dr Michael Gallagher (Digital Education in Development Contexts in Higher Education)
Recording available - Digital Education in Development Contexts in Higher Education: Hybrid Spaces, Leapfrogging and Scale
Dr Michael Gallagher
Link to Media Hopper recroding of the above seminar held on 4th May 2018:
Centre Report 2018
The Centre for Research in Digital Education launched in November 2015, bringing together research within the Moray House School of Education that spanned digital pedagogy, computational and data cultures within education and the impact of digital technology on children and childhood.
The Centre now brings together this work under three themes: Digital Cultures; Children & Technology; and Data Society.