Myles Blaney recorded a podcast earlier today, our first since the pandemic began changing the nature of how and where we work, how and where we socialize. In the podcast …
Transitions online and working from home
We at the University of Edinburgh, like everyone everywhere else, have been scrambling to pull everything online as best as possible this week. I have worked closely with the Learning, …
BAICE Conference Edinburgh: Call for Papers
I am helping to organise the upcoming BAICE Conference being hosted in Edinburgh this year (feel free to guess which sub-theme below is mine) and encourage anyone in my network …
Foundations for All (FFA) at University of Edinburgh Academic Senate
The Foundations for All (FFA) team is presenting today at the Senatus Academicus at the University of Edinburgh, the University’s supreme academic body. This is a project we are all …
Foundations for All: a project on building pathways into HE for displaced populations in Lebanon and Uganda
I have been working recently on a project being funded by the Mastercard Foundation and the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh which is attempting …
Expanding the Teacher Function at the IT Futures Conference
My colleague Markus Breines and I will be speaking today at the IT Futures Conference at the University of Edinburgh on our project exploring the role that automation might potentially …
Digital Education project in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda: Second Year
Our little research cluster of Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, the University of Dar es Salaam and the State University of Zanzibar in Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda (and …