Launch of the new Digital Education research centre

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...

Manifesto redux: re-working the Manifesto for Teaching Online for 2015

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...

Our new MOOC with National Museums Scotland has launched

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...

Our new special issue: Critical approaches to open education

 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,...

Teacherbot asks new questions about teacher automation

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...