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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 become...

Keynotes coming up for Spring 2016

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 so are...

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...

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...

 Jeremy Knox, Jen Ross and I have been working on this special issue for a couple of years now, are thrilled to see it in press at last. We're very happy with the final collection, which features some cracking articles from Richard Edwards, Bonnie Stewart, Richard...

The Digital Education group have developed a simple twitterbot which has been teaching alongside us on the ‘E-learning and digital cultures’ MOOC. Featured in the Times Higher Education today , the ‘teacherbot’ was an experiment in thinking about how code, algorithm...

Jeremy Knox and I have been co-teaching this course on our MSc in Digital Education this semester and it's been a blast! Many thanks to all the students who've done such interesting work over the last few weeks. The course is a bit unusual in that it's delivered 'in...

These are all in my diary for 2015 now and I'm very much looking forward to them: Keynote for E-MOOCs in Mons, Belgium in May Keynote for CELT annual conference in Galway, June Keynote for EuroCALL 2015 at Universita di Padova, Italy, August  

There's no denying the stressfulness of delivering an inaugural lecture, however now it's done it feels safe to say I enjoyed it (kind of!). Thanks to everyone for all the encouragement, cards, gifts and good feelings. Here's the video: