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, Teaching and the Web team to offer as much training as possible in that time and all told we were able to reach more than […]
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 the University of Edinburgh of course!) have been lucky enough to receive some more funding to continue our work exploring digital education in SSA. Since […]
New Project: Exploring the Teacher Function: Continuing Speculative Interventions in Automated Teaching
I just kicked off a new project at the Centre for Research in Digital Education building on Sian Bayne’s work on Teacherbot. I am joined by Markus Breines, Myles Blaney, and Marcello Crolla, all of the University of Edinburgh, on this one. Project page is here. This project builds on the work of Teacherbot (Bayne 2015) and its model […]
Research Focus and New Papers: mobility and the distribution of agency in assemblages of connectivity
In between terms seems like a natural enough time to pause for a bit and refine my research focus for the next few years. I have been writing chapters and papers (hence my lack of writing here) largely around speculative topics and have enjoyed that quite a bit. The topics are seemingly disparate but they […]
Anonymity in Mobile Messaging: Criminalization, Luxury, Permission, and Persistent Presentation of Self
Clearly a favorite subject of mine, I am returning yet again to the subject of surveillance and privacy in the digital and attempting, clumsily, to link that to development work and my work at the Centre for Research in Digital Education. Just yesterday, James Lamb and I were using Telegram to pilot our mLearning idea […]
My Digital Education Journey (aka, why you should apply for the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh)
The Story Map tells this story better than I can so I will rely on it for the narrative here. But if you have an interest in digital education, you could do no better than apply to the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. Unique in every way. The Story Map tells […]
Calling all UK Teachers: Evaluating Digimap and ICT in schools
As part of the work I am doing at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, I am evaluating Digimap, an online mapping service developed by EDINA. By way of background, Digimap is a combination of several services that are licensed at a cost with a combined subscription rate of over […]