Clara O'Shea
Teaching Fellow
- Institute for Education, Community and Society (IECS)
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, SJ
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
I teach on the MSc in Digital Education and am a member of the Centre for Research in Digital Education.
My research interests are interdisciplinary, informed by my background in psychology and science and technology studies and situated within the digital education context. I'm particularly interested in the formation of learner identities in collaborative, digital environments and in playful approaches for teaching and learning.
Qualifications
BA (Hons) HIstory/BSc Psychology, The Australian National University
MA Online Education, The University of Southern Queensland
MSc Science and Technology Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Responsibilities & affiliations
Centre for Research in Digital Education, The University of Edinburgh
Teaching Fellow, The Higher Education Academy
Postgraduate teaching
MSc in Digital Education:
- Digital games, play and the psychology of learning (Course organiser)
- Critical issues in digital education
- Course Design for Digital Environments
- Assessment and Learning in Digital Education (Course organiser)
- Dissertation supervision
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
No
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The Manifesto for Teaching Online
(242 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Centre Report 2019: Centre for Research in Digital Education
(21 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7488/era/crde-003
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Evaluative judgement of working practices: Reconfiguring assessment to support student adaptability and agency across complex settings
In:
Italian Journal of Educational Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/1027
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Learning how kinds matter: A posthuman rethinking Ian Hacking’s concepts of kinds, dynamic nominalism and the looping effect
(8 pages)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Distributed Learning and Isolated Testing: Tensions in Traditional Assessment Practices
(8 pages)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Centre Report 2018: Centre for Research in Digital Education
(17 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7488/era/crde-004
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Manifesto for Teaching Online 2016
(2 pages)
Manifesto for Teaching Online 2016 › Other contribution (Published) -
Disruptions and Dialogues: Supporting Collaborative Connoisseurship in Digital Environments
(273 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Group connoisseurship: creating shared understandings of quality in online collaborative assessments
In:
Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching, vol. 6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
That ever-ephemeral sense of “being” somewhere: Reflections on a dissertation festival in second life
(190 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)