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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".

Latent Futures: joint DE-UCL Webinar

Register to the webinar "Latent futures" and learn ow understanding the future as unfolding around us might equip us to contest those narratives of the future that are not adequate to our current moment.

Recording available: Killing Us Softly? The Four Futures of Digital Education

We are happy to announce the release of the recording of the seminar: Killing Us Softly? The Four Futures of Digital Education.

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.
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.