highlights
Teaching in Higher Education
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...
New MOOC project with National Museums Scotland
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...
Autumn talks
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...
A new paper and other publication thoughts
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
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...
DiCE discussions
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...
New chapter ‘Posthuman literacy in heterotopic space: a pedagogic proposal’
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...
Being ‘at’ university: paper coming out in Higher Education
It's been in review for over a year but at last the paper I wrote with James Lamb and Michael Sean Gallagher is accepted for publication in Higher Education. This comes out of our project on the New Geographies of Learning, and looks at how distance students 'make'...
Cabaret of dangerous ideas: the end of education
Thanks to Jen Ross's Beltane Parliament Fellowship, Hamish Macleod, Jen and I got to run a session in the Spiegeltent at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, during the Edinburgh Fringe 2013. Here we are, talking about the end of education during our session on The...