World-class Masters programme that will challenge your thinking about education and technological change

Delivered fully online

Although this is a distance-learning course, you won’t be alone: you will have the opportunity to work closely with your fellow students and tutors in a properly supported, collaborative and vibrant online learning environment.

Critical and practical

The MSc in Digital Education gives professionals in higher and further education and training and development the practical skills and critical insight they need in this fast-moving and richly diverse field.

Research-based teaching

The MSc programme is delivered by experienced teachers who are also active researchers in the field. Our programme is linked to the work of the Centre for Research in Digital Education.

Our manifesto for teaching online

Showcase of student work

Nicol Badges
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Open Badges and Open Accreditation

Stuart Nicol

Digital Futures for Learning

2015

Inventure - A blended learning experience for teaching engineering and design skills
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Inventure - A blended learning experience for teaching engineering and design skills

Mia Chapman

Introduction to digital game-based learning

2018

Contested futures for lighting in urban spaces: drawing on ideas about messiness and resistance to inform lighting education strategies against light pollution
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Contested futures for lighting in urban spaces: drawing on ideas about messiness and resistance to inform lighting education strategies against light pollution

Mary-Anne Kyriakou

Digital Futures for Learning

2018

computer game screenshot
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Moon Bloom - The Legend of the Bloom of the Aligned Moons

Austin Tate

Introduction to digital game-based learning

2012

Jemima's Miro Gallery Space
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Cyberculture, Community Culture, and Algorithmic Culture Galleries

Jemima Collins

Education and Digital Culture

2021

Mobius knitting
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Learning Challenge: Mobius Knitting

David Yeats

Understanding Learning in an Online Environment

2019

Henrietta's cover image to her essay
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Understanding the role of productive failure in the learning process

Henrietta Carbonel

Understanding Learning in an Online Environment

2019

Learning analysis
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Learner Analysis: Deliberate Diversity in and International School

Louis Odendaal

Understanding Learning in an Online Environment

2019

A cover image from Paul's essay
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A question of values: a story fo two uncertain futures

Paul Taylor

Education and Digital Culture

2021

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Lymphaticus - a learning game designed for lymphoedema patients to promote better understanding and treatment concordance.

Juliet Keaton

Introduction to digital game-based learning

2018

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The Learning Experience as Art: Jazz Test 3

Vincent Falivene

Education and Digital Culture

2021

Stephen Bezzina assignment cover page
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Transforming Assessment Through Games: The Design, Development and Evaluation of a Game-Informed Assessment Framework using Digital Assessment Technologies

Stephen Bezzina

Dissertation

2015

My journey to the end of the course (DEIDGBL)
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My journey to the end of the course (DEIDGBL)

Rachelle O'Brien

Introduction to Digital Game Based Learning

2018

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The Panopticon: Digital literacy and a future of surveillance

Ana Lopes

Digital futures for learning

2020

Game-Informed Assessment for Playful Learning and Student Experience
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Game-Informed Assessment for Playful Learning and Student Experience

Maria Pavlou

Dissertation

2018

A sign saying the vision is a real democracy
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Towards a radical digital citizenship

Akwugo Emejulu

E-learning, Politics and Society

2014

A nautical map
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Deck Officer Training and Technology: Developing a Critical Approach

Angus Ferguson

Digital futures for learning

2020

Promises and pitfalls of big data in higher education
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The Promises & Pitfalls of Big Data in Higher Education

Nick Jenkins

Education and digital culture

2015

Plant growing in a cave.Text saying spatial context
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Spatial Context: How can digital tools and media be used to spatio-temporally contextualize learning in online learning environments?

JD Caudle

Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning

2016

The Biological Citizen assignment cover page
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The Biodigital Citizen: Exploring privacy, security and safety in a rapidly evolving digital world

Joe Nicholls

Digital Futures for Learning

2017

Stephen's cover page for his essay
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Anatomy of a learning machine (A speculative critical fiction)

Stephen Abblitt

Education and Digital Cultures

2018

black and white photo of a face
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Has the read/write web made academic definitions of authorship and originality irrelevant?

Tim Dalton

Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning

2011

Embracing the challenges of personalisation in mass higher education
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Embracing the challenges of personalisation in mass higher education

D Lozza

Digital Futures for Learning

2017

Image from Miriam's Miro gallery space
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Cyberculture, Community Culture, and Algorithmic Culture Galleries

Miriam Fischer

Education and Digital Culture

2021