Based on ongoing discussions and projects exploring emerging technology adoption in education at the University of Edinburgh, Michael Gallagher (Centre for Research in Digital Education) and Myles Blaney (Learning, Teaching and Web) decided that all the exploratory conversations they were having naturally might be useful to share with the wider community via a podcast.

We want to use the podcast as a means of documenting our thinking on how we are approaching particular technologies, positioning these as expanding on the 'teacher function' (or not, in which case we are largely ignoring them), and demystifying them, hopefully, in the process. We are keen to explore if and how this new tech could impact the educational community and in particular teaching.

The topics themselves will vary but the immediate targets are an ongoing discussion around automation and teaching (lots of demystifying necessary there), learning analytics, and adaptive learning, all of which we are engaging with speculatively at the Univ