Professor Neil Morris wrote a blog post about scaling up online education during COVID-19 for the Higher Education Policy Institute drawing on the research findings from the Unbundled University research project. You can read the blog post here: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/04/29/scaling-up-online-education-more-haste-less-speed/
Please see below details of events planned by The Centre for Research in Digital Education for 2020: February 5th 2020, 12.30-2pm – Seminar – ‘Dashboards’ Dr Liz Bennett, Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield. April 8th 2020, 12.30-2pm – Seminar- ‘Learning analytics and wellbeing’, Samantha...
Current Centre PhD student, Fereshte Goshtasbpour, has published a journal article with supervisors Neil Morris and Bronwen Swinnerton on instructors' contributions to MOOCs. You can access the article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjet.12787
Neil Morris, Bronwen Swinnerton and Taryn Coop have recently published a major new study on the impacts of lecture capture on staff and students in the journal Computers and Education - the paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103604. Highlights from the study: Students use lecture recordings during term time for learning, and for assessment preparation...
Antonio Martinez Arboleda, Principal Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds, UK and Co-director of The Centre for Research in Digital Education of the University of Leeds will be giving a keynote speech entitled Digital Education and Universities: Collaborative Solutions for a Global Challenge at The 8th International Conference on Informatics and Applications ICIA2019 from August 2-4,...
Our research symposium takes place on 16th May 2019. Follow #digitalleeds on Twitter for live updates on presentations, feedback and questions.
See article here: https://www.theguardian.com/transforming-the-student-experience/2019/apr/09/reinventing-higher-education-can-we-use-ai-to-give-the-lecturer-superpowers
Unbundling education: Mapping the changing nature of Higher Education in South Africa - impact report published https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sil/impact/2019/00002019/00000001/art00015
Professor Morris recently spoke to Jisc about authentic assessment practices, and reflected on the value of a group-based multimodal assessment delivered on the MA Digital Education programme at Leeds. See: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/assessment-whats-the-point-19-mar-2019 for the full article
The Centre is delighted to welcome Antonio Martinez Arboleda, based in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (see: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/staff/91/antonio-martinez-arboleda). Antonio is a renowned scholar in the area of Open Educational Resources, and is currently conducting a LITE project investigating Digital Assessment and Feedback (see: http://teachingexcellence.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/antonio-martinez-arboleda/).