1. Near Future Teaching and Shaping Education Futures: Social media as communication and data collection
Dr. Michael Gallagher Centre for Research in Digital Education University of

2. Near Future Teaching
“...futures research can best be understood as an attempt to explore the relationships between ‘possible, probable, and preferable’ futures: ‘what can or could be (the possible), what is likely to be (the probable), and what ought to be (the preferable)’. In order to begin to explore these questions, however, the first task of futures research must necessarily be to critique the assumption that there is an inevitable future to which we must simply adapt or resist.”
Facer, K., & Sandford, R. (2010). The next 25 years?: future scenarios and future directions for education and technology. Journal of computer assisted learning, 26(1),

3. Near Future Teaching
The Near Future Teaching project is about working together to co-design the future of digital education at Edinburgh. We ran a series of workshops, talks, think-tanks, interviews and other activities both online and off: our aim was to draw together the views of students and staff to help design a future for our teaching based on the big ideas, values and visions of those who have a stake in it.

4. What values should shape how we change?
What will the University of Edinburgh be in the coming decades?
How does technology impact your study, teaching, or research?

5. Near Future Teaching #1: Research

6. Near Future Teaching #2: Events

7. Near Future Teaching #3: Interviews and Focus Groups

8. Near Future Teaching School of Economics Digital Skills and Training
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Learning, Teaching and Web
Social Work
School of Literatures, Languages and Culture
School of History, Classics and Archaeology
College of Science and Engineering
Psychology
Library Learning Services
Institute of Cell Biology
Institute for Academic Development
Biomedical Sciences
Educational Design and Engagement
School of Divinity
Centre for Open Learning
Centre for Medical Education
Information Security Division
Business School
Moray House School of Education
Edinburgh College of Art
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
School of Geosciences
School of Engineering
School of Informatics
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
School of Health in Social Science
Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
School of Mathematics
School of Law
School of Biological Sciences
Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
School of Social and Political Science
ACE Residence Life
Staff 100+
Students 100+
Alumni 9

9. Near Future Teaching #4: Thematic Videos

10. Near Future Teaching #5a: Design Workshops
“critique the assumption that there is an inevitable future to which we must simply adapt or resist”

11. Near Future Teaching #5b: Design Workshops

12. Near Future Teaching #5c: Design Workshops
“critique the assumption that there is an inevitable future to which we must simply adapt or resist”

13. Near Future Teaching #6: Communication

14. Near Future Teaching #7: Contribution

15. Near Future Teaching #8: Strategy

16. Lessons Learned #1: Course Correct and Cultural History
“Storify is closing as a free service. It has implications for how individuals and organisations tell stories, and strikes at the cultural history of the internet.”

17. Lessons Learned #2: Medium Shapes the Message

18. Near Future Teaching and Shaping Education Futures: Social media as communication and data collection
Dr. Michael Gallagher Centre for Research in Digital Education University of