I am a senior lecturer in Digital Education, co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education and Deputy Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Education, with responsibilty for knowledge exchange and impact. My research has focused on online learning in higher education, and on digital engagement and learning in the cultural sector, most recently in my AHRC-funded Artcasting project with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. I teach on the MSc in Digital Education, and supervise masters and PhD students on topics relating to digital education and cultures.

Technology practices are changing learning, teaching and knowledge in sometimes radical, and sometimes subtle ways. My research aims at understanding how the digital asks us to rethink many sorts of relationships and practices, and what future developments might bring. The web, and increasingly ubiquitous technologies that connect us to it, is shifting the meanings of authorship, collaboration, creativity, sociability and knowledge, and my work is trying to make spaces for talking about what that means for teachers, students and institutions. I’m especially interested in issues of power and subjectivity, and in how we are made with and by our technologies and practices.

Contributions my research has made include: problematising a discourse of authenticity in online reflective practices; re-imagining how museums and galleries measure visitor engagement; theorising how pedagogical practices can foster resilience for online learners; understanding online student experiences of writing, feedback and assessment; connecting theories of teacher identity to new spaces of MOOC teaching; and justifying the rejection of instrumentalist discourses of speed and efficiency in digital education, research and evaluation.

• Cultural heritage engagement, learning and evaluation
• Digital education, higher education and online learning
• MOOCs and digital futures for learning
• Online reflective practices
• Digital futures

• 2015-16 - principal investigator, Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour: Using mobilities-informed methods to support new approaches to arts evaluation, AHRC. 
• 2016, principal investigator, Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network.
  
• 2014-17, co-investigator, CONSTRUIT!:  Making construals as a new digital skill for creating interactive open educational resources. ERASMUS+ (Lead partner: University of Warwick)
• 2014-15, principal investigator, Dissertations at a Distance, Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme.
• 2013-14, Partner, Coding the MOOC teacher, HSS College Challenge Investment Fund. PI: Professor S Bayne
• 2013-14 - Beltane Parliament Engagement Fellow: Distance and Online Learning for an Inclusive and Innovative Scotland
• 2011-12 – co-investigator, New geographies of learning: Distance education and being “at” Edinburgh. (PI Dr S Bayne)
  
• 2010-11 – co-investigator, Digital Futures for Cultural Heritage Education in Scotland seminar series. Royal Society of Edinburgh. (PI Dr Sian Bayne)
  
• 2009-11 - principal investigator, Student writing: innovative online strategies for assessment and feedback http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/swop/
• 2009-10 - co-principal investigator, "Research Perspectives: discussion, debate and dialogue" series for doctoral students and early career researchers in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh
• 2007-09 - National Museums Online Learning Project, research strand (Research Associate) http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/dice/nmolp/

I teach on the MSc in Digital Education programme, and was director of the MSc from 2012-15. I have led courses including “Digital futures for learning” and "Research Methods", and have taught on the “E-learning and digital cultures” and “Introduction to digital environments for learning” courses.

I supervise PhD and MSc dissertations on topics relating to digital education.

I co-developed and taught one of the University of Edinburgh's first MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) - first taught in January-February 2013. 

James Lamb, School of Education

John Morrison, Edinburgh College of Art

Sarah Treloar, School of Education

Murray Craig, School of Education

Janan Dean, School of Social and Political Science (completed 2015)

Jeremy Knox, School of Education (completed 2014)

Claire Wright, School of Education (completed 2014)

Centre for Research in Digital Education (co-director): http://www.de.ed.ac.uk

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