Professor of Digital Education, University of Edinburgh
I direct the Centre for Research in Digital Education.
I teach on the MSc in Digital Education.
I’m also Director of Education at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Researching higher education futures, interdisciplinary approaches to researching digital education and digital pedagogy.
Countdown: The Manifesto for Teaching Online book is out in September
The Manifesto will soon be out in book form! Published by MIT Press, publication date is September 2020. Post-COVID, we find that the manifesto not only holds up but becomes even more necessary in its resistance to instrumental logics and its call to be bold and critical.
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Countdown to the launch of our new book-form Manifesto for Teaching Online from team #mscde! @mitpress will publish it next month. After #covid we need it more than ever. https://sianbayne.net/countdown-the-manifesto-for-teaching-online-book-is-out-in-september/ @eddiged @MorayHouse @UoE_EFI
Here's a great new opportunity at the University of Edinburgh for a postdoc in theology and ethics of AI; this person will be in the School of Divinity but also working with me and others at @UoE_EFI - please share widely & encourage folks to apply! https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CAU704/post-doctoral-research-fellow-in-theology-and-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence
Another day, another Silicon Valley start up ‘revolutionises’ higher education. Yawn. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jul/30/the-future-of-education-or-just-hype-the-rise-of-minerva-the-worlds-most-selective-university?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other