May 17, 2016
We have just received funding from the Edinburgh Principal’s Award Scheme to research Yik Yak for understanding teaching, learning and assessment at the University of Edinburgh. Yik Yak is a location-based social media app, launched in 2013, which has quickly...
Feb 24, 2016
I have a few keynotes lined up between now and the summer: The 10th International Conference on Networked Learning is in May, and I am looking forward to presenting some new work on the theme of ‘Campus codespaces for networked learners’ in my keynote, as...
Oct 21, 2015
Next month we are launching our new Centre, which will pull the research that we’re doing here in the Digital Education group into something more formal and identifiable. The web site is still in development, but we have our logo and a date for the launch party...
Oct 21, 2015
We have just finalised the text for an updated version of our Manifesto: we found that the field had moved on a lot since the first version in 2011, and while the manifesto text has been remixed a fair bit by others since it first came out, we felt that as a teaching...
Oct 17, 2015
We have been working in partnership with colleagues at the National Museum of Scotland to develop a new MOOC on Victorian Photography. This 5-week course accompanies the major summer exhibition at NMS on Photography: A Victorian Sensation, and is the first MOOC the...
