Nov 30, 2024
On 26 November I chaired the final Edinburgh Futures Conversation in this season at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. We talked about AI and the Future of Education. The recording of this event is now available to watch. I was joined by the wonderful Ben Williamson,...
Jul 19, 2024
Jen Ross and I published a paper which sets out the methodological basis of our Higher Education Futures work: Bayne, S., Ross, J. Speculative futures for higher education. Int J Educ Technol High Educ 21, 39 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-024-00469-y It...
Nov 30, 2023
It was good to be asked to attend the Online Educa Berlin conference this month to talk about ‘new educational landscapes’ in a plenary chaired by Gilly Salmon. My talk focused on Humans, machines and the futures we choose – connecting closely to a...
Nov 27, 2023
During the process of peer review of my recent paper, Digital Education Utopia – mostly an analytical, speculative and methodology-oriented paper on the utopian ‘impulse’ in digital education – one of the reviewers asked the question,...
Oct 27, 2023
Over my recent sabbatical I worked with the idea of utopia, in particular Ruth Levitas’s Utopia as Method, in order to try to understand how we might move digital education – and education generally – toward a more hopeful future. The paper weaves...
