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Young People Co-Researchers (YPCR) project: research output

Read the paper "Secondary Students as Co-Researchers on Generative AI in Learning: Empowering Youth to Shape National Education Policy", presenting the result of a research in collaboration with SQA and young people.

Jen Ross and Judy Robertson at Parliament Event for Education Leaders

Jen Ross and Judy Robertson presented three policy provocation scenarios of possible futures for AI and education at the Scottish Parliament.

Young People’s Use of AI to Support Learning

Register for this online event discussing a recent research collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, the SQA and young people on the use of AI to support learning.

Teach AI Literacy Handbook

Download the Teach AI Literacy Handbook for upper primary and secondary teachers. The handbook contains an AI curriculum framework relating to Curriculum for Excellence outcomes.

10 years of Digital Education

Relive with us the highlights of our 10-years anniversary party, which also celebrated the 20 years of our MSc Digital Education.

Ivana Milojevic at the Anticipatory Governance Conference 2025

Read more about Dr Milojevic's closing keynote on "Uses and Abuses of Futures. Anticipatory Governance in the Time of Monsters".

About
The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, 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.
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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.