Dr Jen Ross
Senior Lecturer
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6133
- Email: jen.ross@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Jen's website
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, SJL 4.15
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- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
I am a Senior Lecturer in Digital Education, co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, and Education Futures fellow at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. I research, teach and publish on online and open education, digital cultural heritage engagement, and digital cultures and futures. I'm one of the team behind the Manifesto for Teaching Online and the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC. I have worked on recent research, public engagement and consultancy projects with a range of organisations including National Galleries of Scotland, Tate, Scottish Parliament, World Bank, and the Council for At-Risk Academics. I co-ordinate the Digital Cultural Heritage cluster in the Centre for Data, Culture and Society, and lead the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network.
Centre for Research in Digital Education
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Qualifications
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Responsibilities & affiliations
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Undergraduate teaching
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Postgraduate teaching
On the MSc in Digital Education , I lead Digital Futures for Learning", and Course Design for Digital Environments, and teach on the “Introduction to digital environments for learning” and “Education and digital cultures” courses. I was the director of the MSc programme between 2012-15.
In 2013-14, I was part of the team that developed and taught one of the UK's first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) - E-learning and Digital Cultures (EDCMOOC).
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Areas of interest for supervision
I supervise PhD and MSc dissertations on topics relating to digital education and digital cultures.
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Current PhD students supervised
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Past PhD students supervised
- Janan Dean - Examining Social Work and Technology: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Technology Issues in Violence Against Women Shelters in Ontario, Canada (2015)
- Jeremy Knox - Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course: contaminating the Subject of Global Education (2014)
- Claire Sowton (Wright) - Arts evaluation and the transformative power of the arts: A visual ethnography of transformative learning in a collaborative
community (arts) film (2013)
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Research summary
- Online and distance learning and teaching
- Cultural heritage learning and engagement
- Digital cultures
- Reflective practices
- Online learning and identity
- Higher education
- Creativity and digital futures
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Knowledge exchange
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Project activity
- 2017-18: CI - Methodological Innovations for Assessing Learning in Digital Spaces. Edinburgh-Sydney Partnership Collaboration Award, 2017-18. With PIs Dragan Gasevic and Jen Scott Curwood.
- 2015-16: PI – Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour: Using mobilities-informed methods to support new approaches to arts evaluation. AHRC, 2015-16. With CIs Jeremy Knox and Chris Speed.
- 2015-16: PI – Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network, University of Edinburgh Academic Networking Fund, 2016. With CIs Sian Bayne, James Loxley and Chris Speed.
- 2014-15: PI – Dissertations at a Distance. Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme, University of Edinburgh
- 2014-17: Partner – CONSTRUIT!: Making construals as a new digital skill for creating interactive open educational resources. Funded by ERASMUS+, with Warwick (lead partner), Edumotiva (Greece), University of Eastern Finland, Helix 5 (Netherlands), Comenius University (Slovakia), and the University of Edinburgh. (2014-17)
- 2014-15: Project team: Coding the MOOC teacher.
- 2013-16: Lead consultant on a project with the World Bank, Washington DC, supporting the development of their MOOCs. (2013-15)
- 2012-2016: Member of the ARTIST ROOMS Research Partnership, Engagement and Learning strand. Partnership Lead: Neil Cox. (2012-16)
- 2013-14: Fellow, Beltane Parliament Engagement Fellowship on the topic of “Distance and online learning for an innovative and inclusive Scotland”.
- 2014: Co-author, Higher Education Academy commissioned report: ‘MOOC pedagogy: the UK view’. With Sian Bayne. Report details: Bayne, S. and Ross, J. (2014) The Pedagogy of the MOOC: the UK View. York: Higher Education Academy.
- 2013-14: Member of local organising committee, Networked Learning 2014, Edinburgh.
- 2013-14: Research associate, Putting art on the map . Funded from a NESTA Digital R&D award, a partnership between the Imperial War Museum, Historypin and the University of Edinburgh.
- 2011-12 – co-investigator, New geographies of learning: Distance education and being “at” Edinburgh. (PI Dr S Bayne)
- 2010-11 – co-investigator, Digital Futures for Cultural Heritage Education in Scotland seminar series. Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- 2009-11 - principal investigator, Student writing: innovative online strategies for assessment and feedback
- 2009-10 - co-principal investigator, "Research Perspectives: discussion, debate and dialogue" series for doctoral students and early career researchers in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh
- 2007-2009 - National Museums Online Learning Project, research strand (Research Associate)
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The Manifesto for Teaching Online
(242 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17
In:
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 8, pp. e1038-e1060
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30230-8
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A multimodal assessment framework for higher education
In:
E-Learning and Digital Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2042753020927201
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Digitised heritage, online audiences and shifting relations of trust
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Abstract (Accepted/In press) -
Commentary: Higher education after surveillance?
(5 pages)
In:
Postdigital Science and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-019-00098-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
Critical approaches to valuing digital education: learning with and from the Manifesto for Teaching Online
In:
Digital Culture and Education, vol. 11
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Centre Report 2019: Centre for Research in Digital Education
(21 pages)
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published) -
Mobilising connections with art: Artcasting and the digital articulation of visitor engagement with cultural heritage
(20 pages)
In:
International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 25, pp. 395-414
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1493698
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Casting a line: Digital co-production, hospitality and mobilities in cultural heritage settings
(18 pages)
In:
Curator: the museum journal, vol. 61, pp. 1-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12280
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Assessment in a digital age: Rethinking multimodal artefacts in higher education
(2 pages)
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
Speculative Method as an Approach to Researching Emerging Educational Issues and Technologies
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
The ‘campus imaginary’: Online students’ experience of the masters dissertation at a distance
In:
Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 22, pp. 839-854
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1319809
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Artcasting, mobilities, and inventiveness: Engaging with new approaches to arts evaluation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315522456
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
If it’s creative, it doesn’t feel like evaluation: Implications for practice from the Artcasting project
(11 pages)
In:
The Museum Review, vol. 2, pp. 1-11
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
For whom, and for what? Not-yetness and thinking beyond open content
In:
Open Praxis, vol. 9, pp. 7-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.9.1.406
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Speculative method in digital education research
In:
Learning, Media and Technology, vol. 42, pp. 214-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2016.1160927
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Making construals as a new digital skill: Dissolving the program - and the programmer - interface
(8 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/iTAG.2015.10
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published) -
“Where does this work belong?”: New digital approaches to evaluating engagement with art
Research output: › Paper (Published) -
Complexity, mess and not-yetness: Teaching online with emerging technologies
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Manifesto for Teaching Online 2016
(2 pages)
Manifesto for Teaching Online 2016 › Other contribution (Published)
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