Digital Education (Online)

Learning, teaching, training, and research are profoundly affected by the challenges and opportunities posed by the digital acceleration in education. Since 2006, the MSc in Digital Education has given professionals in education - whether in higher or further education, schools, NGOs, commercial organisations, and government ministries - the critical insight they need in this fast-moving and richly diverse field.

The Digital Education (Online) program at The University of Edinburgh is distinctive for its innovative design, its breadth of scope, the high level of support provided to students and its basis in the research activity of the Centre for Research in Digital Education. Our tutors are actively researching in this field and bringing that research to their teaching.

Career opportunities

The skills and knowledge this program provides will enable you to expand your existing career into the fast-moving and richly diverse field of digital education.

The research skills you gain in the MSc program will equip you for further study and possibly an academic career if you choose.

Courses included:

• Critical Issues in Digital Education (compulsory for all students)
• Research Methods (compulsory for those studying for the MSc)

• Course Design for Digital Environments
• Critical Data and Education
• Digital Education in the Majority World
• Digital Education: Strategy and Policy
• Digital Futures for Learning
• Education and Digital Culture
• Information Literacies in Digital Education
• Learning Spaces and Digital Technologies
• Digital games, play and the psychology of learning