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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.
Our Centre report 2020 is out
We have just published our research centre report for the last year. It celebrates our collective output (more than 50 publications!), our projects and our amazing people. A new visualisation from our graphic designer, peakfifteen, details our global reach over the...
Edinburgh University learning and teaching conference keynote 2020
My talk discussed the Near Future Teaching project we ran here at Edinburgh between 2017-19. The project pushed back on some of the imperatives for the future of teaching we are often confronted with. These often assume a highly technologised context driven by...
Podcast: my conversation with Neil Selwyn on post-digital education
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...
New paper on the Manifesto – Critical approaches to valuing digital education
Jen Ross, James Lamb and I have a new paper out in Digital Culture and Education. The paper gives an introduction to the Manifesto for Teaching Online, and looks in particular at its academic reception as a non-traditional academic output. The paper comes out ahead of...
New paper – Machine behaviourism: Future visions of ‘learnification’ and ‘datafication’
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...
Near Future Teaching final report
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...
New paper: The Social Value of Anonymity on Campus
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...
Posthumanism: a navigation aid for educators
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...
Near Future Teaching: video edits
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.