Professor Jen Ross

Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures

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.

External link

http://jenrossity.net

Slides available for UoE IAD Learning and Teaching Conference

UoE IAD Learning and Teaching Conference slides

If you weren't able to attend the University of Edinburgh IAD Learning and Teaching conference, 20th June, you can now access presentation slides and watch the Keynote presentations here. Links to slides for presentations from Digital Education colleauges below:

'Near Future Teaching', Sian Bayne, Jennifer Williams and Michael Gallagher

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'

Children's Thoughts on Teaching Automation

Help! My Teacher Is a Robot! – Children’s Thoughts on Teaching Automation

by Yi-Shan Tsai

Family event 11 Nov: Help! My teacher is a robot! 2017 ESRC Festival of Social Science

Saturday 11 November 12 noon - 4pm, Ocean Terminal

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.

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: