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Biology, data science and the making of precision education

Generating insights into the ways biological and data sciences are becoming new sources of knowledge in technological societies.

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Centre for Early Mathematics Learning

Exploring the cognitive, emotional, social, and environmental factors influencing the development of children’s maths skills.

Practitioner networks and digital inclusion for higher education in sub-Saharan Africa

Creating practitioner networks and digital capacity building for universities in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Data Education in Schools

Developing data literacy and data citizenship skills to learners ages 3-18 years old

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Annual report 2023

Find out about our research community, projects, publications and work with the Edinburgh Futures Institute in 2022-2023

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MSc Digital Education

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How technology, culture, learning and policy intersect within research and practice in digital education.

Events

How and for what can one hope? Orientations toward the university in ruins

13 Jun 2024

Seminar

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Dr Darren Webb (University of Sheffield) will provoke reflection and discussion about how and for what we (you, me, us) can presently hope.

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News

9 May 2024	British Data Awards 2024	The Data Education in Schools team have won the ‘Education Initiative of the Year’ Award at the 2024 British Data Awards.
29 Apr 2024	Every Tech Tool in the Classroom Should Be Ruthlessly Evaluated	Dr Ben Williamson has been cited in The New York Times in the article 'Every Tech Tool in the Classroom Should Be Ruthlessly Evaluated'.
11 Apr 2024	Recording available: 'AI's Empathy Gap'	Watch the recording of last month's seminar with Dr Nomisha Kurian, Cambridge Department of Sociology
8 Apr 2024	New project: Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage	Funded by the Creative Informatics AHRC Creative Cluster programme, this project imagines possible futures for Digital Cultural Heritage infrastructure given current conversations regarding audience, resourcing, governance, and stages of technological development.
26 Mar 2024	Information Literacy Award	The Data Education in Schools team are have jointly won the 2024 Information Literacy Award, announced as part of the LILAC conference held in Leeds on the 25th March.
19 Mar 2024	Data Education in Schools nominated for British Data Award	The Data Education in Schools team have reached the final of the British Data Awards 2024.

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The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, and conducts research, knowledge exchange and consultancy in key areas including digital education pedagogy and policy, open education, children and technology, learning analytics and museum learning.

Engagement

We work with many partner universities as well as policymakers, the cultural heritage sector, schools and other public and private sector organisations. Our partners value us for our critical approach to learning, teaching and technology in formal and informal education, and for the ways in which we combine our research with world-leading practice in digital education.

Research across the Centre