Dr Michael Gallagher

The Centre for Research in Digital Education are running the Digital Education Programme Staff Spotlight Series, a series of events to highlight our Digital Education Programme. On 30 October between 14.00 and 14.30, the second staff spotlight event will host Dr Michael Gallagher and Clara O'Shea.

In early September, a transformative initiative brought together digital education experts and practitioners in Kampala, Uganda, marking a significant moment in the online students’ education journey and the advancement of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa. This initiative is part of the project "Practitioner Networks and Digital Inclusion for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa".

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.

A group of MSc in Digital Education students from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, alongside Dr Michael Gallagher and Dr Pete Evans, recently met in Accra for three days of workshops to initiate conversations around issues on the intersections of technology and education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education will explore understandings of connected learning provision at tertiary and higher education (HE) in contexts that constitute forced displacement - in emergency settings, and in resettlement and asylum contexts. 

Funding secured from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to deliver the project 'Connected Policy, Practice and Accreditation: Connected Refugee Education in Ugandan Higher Education.'