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Digital Education Student Conference 2025

Digital Education Student Conference 2025

Conference presentations

We are pleased to share recordings from our Digital Education Student Conference 2025, a student-led online conference held on 20-21 May 2025 showcasing the work of current and former Digital Education students at the University of Edinburgh.

This event marked a special milestone—the 10th anniversary of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, and 20th anniversary of the Digital Education Programme, at the University of Edinburgh.

We would like to continue the discussion by inviting you to post comments and questions on the presentation pages here.

Please feel free to browse the conference presentations below, ▶️ play the recordings and 💬 post your comments and questions.

For any questions, please contact the organising committee.

🗓️ Day 1 Tuesday 20 May 2025

 

🕜 13:30-14:00 Day 1 conference opening

Conference opening

Dr Janja Komljenovic, Digital Education Programme Director

🕑 14:00-15:00 Session 1

Enjoyable learning, despite disruption and constraints: speculatively-informed, playful and subversive course design

Sarah Graham

🔴Theme: Exploring innovative course design and assessment strategies for digital environments

EdTech for good?

Tracey Madden

🟢Theme: Critically exploring data-driven technologies and practices in digital education

How platformised data collection practices in state primary schools in England mediate the parent-child relationship

Talia Kelly

🟢Theme: Critically exploring data-driven technologies and practices in digital education

🕒 15:00-16:00 Session 2

AI as Creative Writing Coach: Exploring Human-AI Collaboration in Creative Writing Learning

Cinzia Pusceddu

⚫️Theme: ‘Wildcard’

Exploring complex entanglements of artificial intelligence technologies and educational practice through a diffractive approach

Michael Wolfindale

🟢Theme: Critically exploring data-driven technologies and practices in digital education

🗓️ Day 2 Wednesday 21 May 2025

 

🕤 09:30-10:00 Day 2 conference opening

  • Day 2 conference introduction

🕙 10:00-11:00 Session 3

Understanding digital pedagogies in a Kenyan context by exploring teacher habitus

Emma Morton

🟠Theme: Examining the intersection of education, digital culture, and information literacies

Near Future Teaching: A Framework for Creativity in Game-based Science Education

Monica Tolocica

🔴Theme: Exploring innovative course design and assessment strategies for digital environments

Is Digital Education a Tool of Neoliberalism Policy?

Paola Martinez-Romero

🟡Theme: Analysing the policy context of digital education

🕚 11:00-12:00 Session 4

Promoting open sharing of process and work in progress while preserving students’ freedom to learn in the online studio

Jemima Collins

🔴Theme: Exploring innovative course design and assessment strategies for digital environments

Sociomateriality and postdigitalism of online learning spaces: insights from the study on Polish autistic students’ experience with higher digital education during the COVID19 pandemic

Magda Rybaczuk & Clara O’Shea

🔵Theme: Evaluating the integration of learning spaces and digital technologies to support equitable and effective learning experiences

Exploring the affordances of socio-technical spaces for learners of endangered and minority languages in relation to the principles of critical pedagogy

Leonie Mühlbauer

🔵Theme: Evaluating the integration of learning spaces and digital technologies to support equitable and effective learning experiences

🕛 12:00-13:00 Session 5

Enhancing AI literacy: A pedagogic guide for the human in the loop

Joy Laue Christensen

🔴Theme: Exploring innovative course design and assessment strategies for digital environments

Can GenAI level the playing field for students with barriers to learning?

Bex Drummond

🟢Theme: Critically exploring data-driven technologies and practices in digital education

Gamify the language education : a false promise or an innovative educational approach?

Stefanos Alifierakis

🟣Theme: Investigating the role of digital games and play in educational psychology

🕐 13:00-13:30 Conference closing

Conference closing

Michael Wolfindale

ℹ️ All timings in UK time (BST or GMT+1).

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