The transition at the University of Edinburgh (or at least my small part in it)
Michael GallagherWe are all preparing (in UK HE at least) for that emerging reality that we will likely be teaching online for some part of the academic year 2020/2021. The work…
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: 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…
M&M Podcast: Episodes 5 and 6 on data justice, Teacherbot, and more
In the fifth and sixth episodes of the M&M (Michael and Myles) podcast we are joined by Dr Jeremy Knox, the co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Data Society) and a…
M&M Podcast Episode 4: AI utopia, dystopia and data
In the fourth episode of the M&M (Michael and Myles) podcast we imagine utopian and dystopian narratives of adoption of AI within education, exploring how AI could be used and…