This May we celebrated two major milestones – ten years since the launch of our Centre for Research in Digital Education, and a staggering 20 years since our Masters programme in Digital Education started recruiting.
Over the last two decades we have had the privilege of teaching multiple cohorts of incredible students from many countries and many, many different backgrounds. This was one of the very first online, distance programmes from the The University of Edinburgh and globally it was one of the very first academic, research-based Masters in this field. It continues to go from strength to strength under the leadership of the phenomenal Janja Komljenovic.
Our Research Centre too has thrived over the last 10 years, from a small cluster of us working mostly on the digital cultures of education, to a large, diverse group of around 25 academics and 30+ PhD students doing leading-edge work on education futures, artificial intelligence, datafication, majority world education, young children and technology and data education in schools. Some of our academics came through the Masters programme, into PhD and then into roles within the Centre. Everything connects….
20 years has swept by in an incredible whirlwind of intellectual work and fun – I feel very privileged to have worked with so many outstanding people to build this thing we currently call digital education.