I am Centre co-director (Digital Cultures), and Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the Edinburgh Futures Institute, I am co-director of the MSc in Education Futures. I also teach on the MSc in Digital Education, and I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, speculative methods, online distance education, digital cultural heritage learning, open education and digital cultures. I supervise masters and PhD students in these and related areas.
Professor Jen Ross
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Released today! 'Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods and Pedagogies' by Dr Jen Ross, Senior Lecturer and Centre Co-director (Digital Cultures).
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Books by Dr Jen Ross and Dr Jeremy Knox are now available for pre-order.
Una Europa Digital Cultural Heritage workshop
Find out about the third Una Europa PhD workshop, which took place from 30 May – 1 June 2022, in Helsinki, Finland.
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Centre for Research in Digital Education staff and students presented as part of the University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2022.
Launch of the MSc in Education Futures, Edinburgh Futures Institute
Read about the new MSc in Education Futures postgraduate course.
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Projects
Putting art on the map
Asking how the public learn from generating their own metadata around artworks.
Artist Rooms research partnership
Partnering with the cultural sector on learning and engagement.
The pedagogy of the massive open online course: the UK view
What does it mean to 'teach' at the scale of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)?
Teacherbot: interventions in automated teaching
Thinking critically about 'teacher automation'.
Manifesto for Teaching Online
A teaching philosophy for online education.
Artcasting
Developing and researching a new way of evaluating arts-based engagement.