Postgraduate Course: Digital Education: Spaces (EDUA11475)
Course Outline
| School | Moray House School of Education and Sport |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course considers the complex and changing relationship between technology and space, including the ways that digital resources profoundly affect the conceptualisation and construction of those settings where educational activity is performed. Combining theoretical work with practical activities, students will examine how the flow of data and proliferation of digital resources actively shape learning spaces, for instance through personalisation, mobility, commercialisation and the de-centring of the physical classroom and campus. |
| Course description |
Digital technologies profoundly affect how, where and when teaching and learning happens. In this course we ask how digital technologies are helping to reshape our learning spaces, for instance by increasingly enabling educational activity to be performed in domestic, social and transitory settings beyond the classroom and campus. A 'learning space' refers here to any setting where teaching, writing, reading, reflection, training or any other form of educational activity happens. This includes traditional settings like lecture theatres, labs, and libraries, but also the museum, gallery, studio, forest, city, café and elsewhere.
To achieve this, you will have the freedom to tailor course themes, readings and assignments to the learning spaces that are most personally or professional meaningful. This may be the school, college, university, library, cultural heritage, professional training, or another setting. You¿ll apply theory and research to practice, engaging with themes could include augmented reality, hybridity, mobility, power, sustainability, and the design of positive learning spaces.
Guided by the expertise of the MSc in Digital Education team, you'll participate in research-informed activities and events featuring leading scholars. Stay at the forefront of this dynamic field, with access to the latest studies and innovations that are shaping the future of educational spaces. Join us as we redefine the classroom, campus and other spaces for learning.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Conceptualise the relationship between learning spaces and technologies.
- Critically engage with research around learning spaces, including the potentialities and conflicts associated with digital technologies.
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of how digital technologies affect a range of traditional and emergent learning spaces.
- Generate and critically analyse data to understand the relationship between digital technologies and a specific learning space.
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Reading List
Bayne, S., Gallagher, M.S. & Lamb, J. Being ¿at¿ university: the social topologies of distance students. High Educ 67, 569¿583 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-013-9662-4
Hills, D., & Thomas, G. (2019). Digital technology and outdoor experiential learning. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 20(2), 155¿169. https://doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/14729679.2019.1604244
Lamb, J. & Carvalho, L. (2024). Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards Convivial, Equitable and Sustainable Spaces for Learning. Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-59691-9
Lamb, J., Fawns, T., Noteboom, J., & Ross, J. (2025). Choreography and improvisation in hybrid teaching. Higher Education Research & Development, 44(1), 98¿115. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2024.2435855
Mulcahy, D. (2018). Assembling Spaces of Learning ¿In¿ Museums and Schools: A Practice-Based Sociomaterial Perspective. In: Ellis, R., Goodyear, P. (eds) Spaces of Teaching and Learning. Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice. Springer, Singapore. https://doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7155-3_2
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Critical and reflective thinking: the ability to critically interrogate the complex ways that digital technologies affect learning spaces and practices
Communication: the ability to effectively present academic knowledge in digital and richly multimodal ways
Research: the ability to undertake a small-scale qualitative research exercise, including the generation and analysis of visual and sonic data. |
| Keywords | Learning space,Hybrid space,Mobile learning,Campus,Classroom |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr James Lamb
Tel: (0131 6)51 6243
Email: James.Lamb@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Annemarijn Huizinga
Tel:
Email: ahuizing@ed.ac.uk |
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