The University of London Worldwide’s digital education reading group meets every six weeks to discuss current issues in digital education. It provides a space for education professionals to step back from every day tasks, and reflect on developments and issues in the wider ed tech sector.
Topics discussed in previous meetings
July 2024: International students’ digital experience in their home countries
May 2024: Decoding educational videos: Balancing quality and appeal for the best learning
March 2024: The ethics of GenAI: Tech doomerism vs Silicon Valley promise
February 2024: Fostering online learning community ecosystems
January 2024: The evolving face of open educational resources
November 2023: What does the future of education look like?
October 2023: Education for sustainable development
July 2023: DEBATE! Should we still be talking about digital education, or just about education?
May 2023: Can we engage students in self-directed optional learning using threshold concepts and ipsative assessment?
April 2023: Constructivism, behaviourism and cognitivism in designing for online learning
February 2023: How might large language model chatbots be used in digital education?
January 2023: What’s the deal with EdTech?
December 2022: Student centred feedback
October 2022: In which ways might we use learning analytics?
July 2022: Asynchronous discussion forums
May 2022: Online engagement
March 2022: Autoethnography
February 2022: Authentic learning and storytelling
December 2021: Playful learning
November 2021: Do students know what’s good for them?
October 2021: Questioning the consensus in online pedagogy
September 2021: Automation of/in teaching
July 2021: Learning through blogging
June 2021: Humour in elearning
February 2021: Is it wise to include collaborative learning in an online programme?
January 2021: What do students need to succeed in an online programme? How can we support this?
July 2020: Learning from video: what works?
April 2020: Online assessment and academic integrity
March 2020: Will coronavirus make online education go viral?
February 202: Learning styles – fact or fiction?
