Hamish Macleod @[email protected]

The Edinburgh Futures Institute is seeking to appoint a permanent Director with outstanding strategic and leadership skills and a commitment to collaborative, interdisciplinary, challenge-led and data-driven research, innovation, and teaching. Apply ▶️ edin.ac/4cCbmE3

Come and work with us! @UoE_EFI is looking for a talented and ambitious individual to lead on teaching and research in areas relating to critical futures studies, futuring methodologies and transdisciplinary approaches to education elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

You don't *need* any videos. Asynch is an opportunity to think: what activities, done over more time, would benefit my students. How does this format allow me & their peers to engage differently with their thinking. Point them at existing content & then focus on designing tasks.

I'm very excited to announce that our paper "Alexa doesn't have that many feelings: Children's understanding of AI through interactions with smart speakers in their homes" is now available in Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence: doi.org/10.1016/j.caea…

Digital is the theme of #13 on @NewBooksCritThe advent! @KassemSarrah discusses Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon & the Power of Organization newbooksnetwork.com/work-and-alien… & @jar on Digital Futures for Learning: Speculative Methods & Pedagogies newbooksnetwork.com/digital-future…

📢Fantastic research opportunity at UoE to co-design poetry app with young people! 🧡 Led by @pat_err, with @Dan_Mirman and I. Please consider applying: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… More info here: blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/re… @MorayHouse @DPIE_UoE

This is me! I am the lady in the middle with the glasses 🤓

What are your favourite online learning (or distance / remote / e-learning or other related terms) papers? Covid or pre-Covid. I'm doing a review and wondering what people's most valued papers are.

We are delighted to announce the launch of our 2024/25 online and on-campus postgraduate scholarship applications. Deadline-7th December 2023, 5pm (UK Time). Visit ed.ac.uk/global/masterc… for more information and how to apply. #MCFEdinburgh #NurturingClimateLeaders

If you love your methods, let them go timfawns.com/if-you-love-yo… New post on the need to avoid focusing too closely on technology or clinging too tightly to traditional methods when designing assessment. Photo by Viktor Ritsvall on Unsplash

So thrilled to be awarded this grant to study the emotional effects of generative AI. MIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of generative AI | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology news.mit.edu/2023/mit-schol…

I need assistance! We are recruiting for an @EdinburghUni student to become Assistant Wikimedian in Residence to enhance & expand our support of the WHOLE university. If you love @Wikipedia & want to support helping improve representation online then apply portal.unitemps.com/Search/JobDeta…

We are recruiting! If you are a web application developer who is interested in teaching, learning, AI and data, please apply! Benefits: lovely colleagues and a great view from the office. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

New episode of the podcast "What is the Future of Education?" for @social_futures. I talk with @sbayne about the "Near Future Teaching" project, which aimed to develop a vision for the future of digital education at the university. Listen here: podbean.com/eas/pb-4hfwg-1…

AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers (More reason not to use detectors, more inequalities in AI-related stuff) #AIinEducation hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detect…

Are you interested in participating in a parapsychology study and able to come to our lab in #Edinburgh ? We need you! More info: wordpress.com/page/koestleru… @EdinFortSoc

Final touches before #thetroubles goes to print #seriousgames #conflictstudies #history #politics @ @RiaDunkley #phdbypublication

Our ESRC-funded project, ‘Universities and Unicorns: building digital assets in the higher education industry’ is coming to an end. Join us at our ‘end of project’ webinar series on 22 June: tinyurl.com/2p8v5kpa