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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:  

I'm on the new Executive editorial group of the journal Teaching in Higher Education since last year. Previously, Sue Clegg did an amazing job of leading this journal, and now she's stepped down it's taking 6 of us to fill her shoes. Penny Jane Burke at Roehampton is...

We're very pleased to be working on a new MOOC project in partnership with our colleagues Alison Morrison-Low and Christine McLean at the National Museum. It's to run in tandem with a major new exhibition coming up in Edinburgh in June 2015 called Photography: A...

I've got three talks and keynotes lined up for this autumn, all of which I'm really looking forward to. In September I'm going to the European Association for International Education conference in Prague, to talk alongside the EC High Level Group on the Modernisation...

My sabbatical is now formally over and one of my sabbatical publications is out already: Bayne, S. (2014) What’s the matter with ‘Technology Enhanced Learning’?. Learning, Media and Technology. DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2014.915851 I'm pleased to get this one published,...

I'm on sabbatical from January-May 2014 so am going to be offline a bit more than usual. My plan for these few months is to complete a long review article on posthumanism in education, submit a paper critiquing 'technology enhanced learning' (I've already done that...

We've just finalised the game plan for the Digital Cultures and Education research group discussions this year - all welcome so just drop me a line if you'd like to come. They are every last Friday of the month, 12-2pm, Room 1.37 Paterson's Land on the Holyrood...

 Jen Ross and I have a chapter out in the new book edited by Robin Goodfellow and Mary Lea. Literacy in the Digital University comes out of the excellent ESRC seminar series of the same name, which Robin led and blogged here. Our chapter considers the pedagogy of the...