more good things

Neil Selwyn at Monash University recorded a podcast interview with me, in which we talk about why digital education matters, ways of understanding it, and where it might be headed. The interview is part of a series Neil produces...

Jeremy Knox, Ben Williamson and I have just published a new paper in Learning, Media and Technology as part of a Special Issue on Education and technology into the 2020s: speculative futures. It argues that current trajectories for the future of education may be...

The Near Future Teaching project ran between 2017 and 2019, with the goal to develop a values-based vision for the future of digital education at the University of Edinburgh. The final report is now published - please do download it, read, enjoy and get in touch with...

The new paper from our project on Yik Yak and the social value of anonymity is now out in Learning, Media and Technology. We used the failure of this anonymous social media app to look at the value of anonymity among student communities. We pushed back on the knee...

  Students and colleagues have often asked me for a brief introduction to what we mean by 'posthumanism', and the implications this body of thought has for education. So I was pleased when Anne Rohstock got in touch to ask if I could publish something in the new...

Dip in to see how our community at Edinburgh would like to see a sense of wonder, a focus on community, augmentation and ethical approaches to data included in how we think about our digital future.

  I have a new project running this year, along with the wonderful Jennifer Williams, Michael Gallagher, Lucy Kendra and colleagues, which aims to 'design the future of digital education at Edinbugh'. Through a series of events, workshops, thinktanks and...

                  After my Alt-C talk this September, which discussed the social value of anonymity within universities, David Kernohan from the excellent WonkHE kindly asked me to write a blog post covering some of the...

This year I'm going to be quite heavily involved with the new Edinburgh Futures Institute, which will be doing new kinds of interdisciplinary research to tackle complex societal problems, bring the social sciences and humanities to bear on data science, and develop a...