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15th Annual Drapers lecture: the future of digital education
I was really pleased to be invited to give the annual Drapers lecture at Queen Mary University of London (online of course...) this March. I used it to talk about the future of digital education and how this traumatic last year might shape and change the way...
UNA Europa Future University Lab
Edinburgh University is a member of the UNA Europa alliance of eight universities which includes Freie Universität Berlin, Università di Bologna, Helsingin Yliopisto, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, KU Leuven, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Université...
Falling Walls nomination for Berlin Science Week
I was very happy to be nominated for one of the Edinburgh University 'breakthroughs of the year' for the Falling Walls competition 2020. I didn't win but was happy with my pitch, which used the Near Future Teaching project to make the point that resilient digital...
Manifesto seminar videos
Those of us in the author team of the Manifesto for Teaching Online gave a series of short seminars during September 2020 to launch our new book of the manifesto. This is my talk on the concept of 'campus envy', and you can catch up with the whole series here.
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...