News
Read Sian Bayne's article on WonkHE looking at social media and anonymity in universities.
What are the implications for students and universities of anonymous social media? An article on WonkHE gives a brief account our research into the - now defunct - anonymous social media app Yik Yak, showing that the social value of anonymity was considerable for many of the students that used it. In this article Sian Bayne makes the case of a reconsideration of anonymous social media, and for wider thinking around the privacy issues surrounding how students use other forms of social media.
Welcoming new colleagues and visitors
New researchers and visiting scholars at the Centre for Research in Digital Education
New project with the University of Sydney: Methodological Innovations for Assessing Learning in Digital Spaces.
A collaboration with the Centre for Research in Learning and Innovation at the University of Sydney, developing and researching innovative pedagogical and methodological approaches to designing and assessing student learning in digital spaces.
CONSTRUIT 2017 conference call for papers: Making, thinking and learning in the digital age
13-16 July 2017, University of Warwick, UK
Launch of new Global Challenges Research Fund project
Colleagues from the Centre are collaborating in an exciting new cross-disciplinary research project led by the School of Geosciences at Edinburgh, which will be researching new ways to respond to earthquake and aftershock in crisis regions.
In partnership with Concern Worldwide, the University of Ulster, University of Plymouth, Leeds Beckett University and the British Geological Survey, we will be looking at how we might design educational interventions to help people make decisions before, during and after earthquake.
Wondering and shuffling through the Old Town: a walking seminar and playlist
Our colleague and doctoral student James Lamb has written about the recent Digital Education walking seminar (led by James with Jeremy Knox): ‘Wondering about the city: making meaning in Edinburgh’s Old Town’, which is accompanied below by Jen Ross’s excellent playlist, ‘Shuffling through the Old Town’. Do please read and listen alongside if you can: