AboutI am a Lecturer in Digital Education within the Centre for Research in Digital Education and The Edinburgh Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh, where I teach on the MSc in Digital Education and the MSc in Education Futures. I am co-editor of the Postdigital Science and Education book series (Springer), a co-author of the Manifesto for Teaching Online (MIT Press 2020), and run the Elektronisches Lernen Muzik project where the relationship between music and learning is explored through playlists.
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My current main area of research is concerned with the relationship between learning spaces and digital technologies. This includes writing about the postdigital learning spaces of higher education, the ways online students conceptualise the university, how students use sound to negotiate space for learning, and the impact of learning technologies upon the spatial and temporal configurations of the university. With Lucila Carvalho (Massey University), I co-edited a collection exploring convivial, equitable and sustainable spaces for learning (Springer 2024).
Beyond this, I have argued the case for multimodal feedback around assessment, explored how digital technologies and mobile learning can help us to understand our urban surroundings, and have proposed music playlists as an ethnographic method. At the current time (December 2024), I am course organiser for the postgraduate courses Learning Spaces and Digital Technologies, The Future of Learning Organisations, and Education and Digital Culture. I am supervising PhD projects that explore the educational possibilities of sound, and am keen to hear from prospective PhD candidates looking to undertake research in this area, as well as projects that explore the relationship between learning spaces and digital technologies. Before all of this I was assistant director at Lothians Equal Access Programme for Schools where I helped young people from non-traditional backgrounds to access higher education. Dr James Lamb [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2659-2003 |