Dr Jeremy Knox
Co-Programme Director: Digital Education / Senior Lecturer in Digital Education
- Centre for Research in Digital Education
- Education, Community and Society (ECS)
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6347
- Email: jeremy.knox@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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St John's Land (Rm 4.09)
- City
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Background
I am co-director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education (Data Society) and a Lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. My research interests include critical posthumanism and new materialism, and the implications of such thinking for education and educational research, with a specific focus on the digital. My published work includes critical perspectives on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Posthumanism and the Massive Open Online Course: Contaminating the Subject of Global Education https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138940826
Qualifications
2011-2014
PhD in Education, University of Edinburgh. ESRC fully-funded studentship
Critical posthuman and new materialist perspectives on the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
2009-2011
MSc in E-Learning with distinction, University of Edinburgh
Dissertation: ‘Reviewing the Posthuman in Education’. Individual Courses:
2005-2006
PGCE in Further Education, University of Reading
Full time teacher training and professional placement.
Responsibilities & affiliations
Co-convener of the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) Digital University network
Postgraduate teaching
Introduction to Social Research Methods (SOCRMx) on edX
E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC on Coursera
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Areas of potential PhD supervision include:
Digital (Higher) Education; MOOCs; Open Educational Resources (OERs); social media; continental philosophy; posthumanism; new materialism; science and technology studies/Actor-Network Theory/sociomaterial theory
Current PhD students supervised
- Nada Alsayegh - The Cultural Implications of Arabic Massive Open Online Courses in the Middle East
- Eder Paula - Educational Robotics approaches developed in formal and informal educational settings and the influence in young learners’ career interest in STEM
Research summary
- Digital (Higher) Education
- Critical data studies/algorithm atudies
- Critical posthumansim, new materialism, spatial and mobilities theory
- Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Affiliated research centres
Project activity
Principal investigator
Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education
Edinburgh Pulse - Internet of Things technology for the 'smart' campus
Current project grants
Principal investigator
Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education (PTAS)
Past project grants
Principal investigator
The Learning Analytics Report Card (LARC)
Edinburgh Pulse - Challenge Investment Fund
Co-investigator
Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics (SHEILA).
Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour - AHRC
Teacher Bot - Challenge Investment Fund
Digital/Nature: MineCraft in Schools - Stramash College Fund
E-Light: Edinburgh, energy and education exchange - PTAS
Invited speaker
April 2018
Teaching in the Open: developing a critical higher education practice
Invited talk at SSESW seminar: Advances/Development in Higher Education Teaching, Queens University Belfast
April 2018
Teaching at Scale: Connecting accredited University provision and open MOOC learning
Invited talk at the Advanced Innovation Centre for Future Education, Beijing Normal University
November 2017
Developing Critical Awareness with the Learning Analytics Report Card (LARC)
Invited talk at the iSchool, University of Sheffield
October 2017
From prediction to participation: a vision of critical awareness with the Learning Analytics Report Card (LARC)
SRHE Digital University network event: Critical Learning Analytics, London. https://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/details.asp?EID=322
March 2017
Teaching in the open: developing a critical practice.
Keynote: DARIAH Conference on Open Resources. Lausanne, Switzerland. http://dariah.eu/teach/index.php/events/
January 2017
Digital Heroics for Openness, Automation, and Cultural Value
Keynote: Cambridge Libraries conference, University of Cambridge. http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/conference2017/programme.html
September 2016
Beyond the ‘c-’ and the ‘x-’: new paradigms for MOOC learning
Keynote: International Conference MOOCs, Informal Language Learning, and Mobility, The Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/creet/main/events/international-conference-moocs-informal-language-learning-and-mobility
September 2016
Posthumanism, digital education, and the MOOC
Invited talk: Department of Educational Research Seminar, Lancaster University.
December 2015
Massiveness, Scale, and Automation: perspectives on the more-than-human of the MOOC
Invited talk: The OxCrowd Network, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=747
November 2015
Digital Cultures and Lifelong Learning
Keynote: ‘Self-learning in a Digital Era’, ASEM LLL Hub, Delhi
June 2015
E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC
Invited talk: IACMWMDMPM conference, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu
January 2015
More-than-human analytics
Invited talk for the FutureLearn Academic Network http://www.flnetwork.org/, University of Edinburgh
September 2014
E-learning and Digital Cultures
Invited talk at the ‘E-skills for New Jobs: Accelerating Europe’s Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth’ Conference, Public Policy Exchange, Brussels.
May 2014
Multimodal Profusion in the literacies of the MOOC
Invited talk: Code Acts in Education seminar, University of Edinburgh. https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/
February 2014
Introducing the Massive Open Online Course: Movements, Developments and Futures.
Invited talk to faculty on the design, pedagogy and institutional implications of the MOOC, University of Stavanger
December 2013
How Open are MOOCs? The video lecture, MOOC technology and the complex practices of open education.
Invited talk, Academic development seminar, University of Glasgow.
November 2013
Multimodal Profusion in the Literacies of the Massive Open Online Course.
Invited public webinar for the Association of Learning Technology (ALT).
June 2013
Developing and teaching ‘E-learning and Digital Cultures’
Invited public webinar for the Higher Education Academy: Changing the Learning Landscape– an insight into developing and teaching on a MOOC
April 2013
Platform Games: Playing with the boundaries of data collection in the MOOC
Invited talk and panel member at British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) conference, University of Liverpool
March 2013
Running ‘aMOOC’? Developing and teaching ‘E-learning and Digital Cultures’
Invited talk to staff at Nottingham Trent University
January 2013
MOOC Pedagogy: the challenges of developing for Coursera
Keynote presentation at the 13th Blackboard Users Conference, Durham University
November 2012
Open Educational Resources: salvation or subjectification?
Invited talk, SRHE ‘The Digital University’ event, University of Edinburgh.
April 2012
Motivated, Omnipotent, Obligated, and Cheap: Participating in a MOOC.
Invited talk, Elearning@Ed conference, University of Edinburgh.
Papers delivered
April 2018
Learnification 2.0: from student- to machine-centred higher education
Analytics: The Datafication of Higher Education and Work, Data Citizenship seminar series, The University of Edinburgh
May 2017
MOOCs and making knowledge mobile: E-learning and Digital Cultures on Coursera and Wolearn
6th BNU / UCL IOE International Conference in Education: Education and Mobilities: Ideas, People and Technologies, Beijing Normal University
March 2017
Playing with educational data: The Learning Analytics Report Card (LARC)
Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK17), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
September 2016
New materialism and social justice: a space for productive entanglement, or a political cul-de-sac?
New Materialism Conference 2016, Warsaw, Poland
August 2016
Playing with educational data: the Learning Analytics Report Card (LARC)
Critical data studies track at the 2016 4S/EASST Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain
April 2016
Open education: developing a critical approach
OER16: Open Culture, University of Edinburgh, UK
April 2016
“Where does this work belong?” New Digital Approaches to Evaluating Engagement with Art
Museums and the Web 2016, Los Angeles, USA
February 2015
Posthumanism and the global education of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Thinking Through Deleuze: Nomadic Subjects, Global Citizenship and Posthumanism, Brock University, Ontario
April 2014
The Global Institution, the Homely, and the Overwhelming: (per)forming three MOOC spaces
Ninth International Conference on Networked Learning 2014
October 2013
The Forum, The Sardine Can and the Fake: contesting, adapting and practicing the Massive Open Online Course
Association of Internet Research (AoIR) 14.0 conference, Denver USA
June 2013
Theorising Open Technologies: concealments and exposures
Research, Work and Learning, 8th International Conference, University of Stirling
May 2013
Platform Games: Playing with the boundaries of data collection in the MOOC
Day of Ideas, Digital HSS, University of Edinburgh
April 2013
Activism and the academy: assembling knowledge for social justice
SRHE and HERG event: Higher Education as if the World Mattered, University of Edinburgh
April 2013
Building communities in a MOOC
Panel member at Coursera Partners Conference, University of Pennsylvania
December 2012
MOOCing around with learning spaces
Ignite talk at Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology, NCRM, British Library, London
October 2012
MOOCing around with learning spaces
Ignite talk at the Association of Internet Research (AoIR) 13.0 conference, University of Salford
June 2012
Three critiques of the Open Educational Resources movement
Losing Momentum? Current challenges in learning and technology conference, University of Oxford.
June 2011
Deferral and Difference in a Posthuman Pedagogy
4th International Deleuze Studies Conference
Copenhagen Business School