{"id":959,"date":"2015-11-06T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=959"},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T09:07:00","slug":"an-edinburgh-festival-of-digital-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2015\/11\/06\/an-edinburgh-festival-of-digital-education\/","title":{"rendered":"an Edinburgh festival of digital education"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/08\/castle-e1409157821322.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/08\/castle-e1409157821322-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Picture taken by me from Evolution House. No rights reserved.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/08\/castle-e1409157821322-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/08\/castle-e1409157821322-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/08\/castle-e1409157821322.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture of Edinburgh castle taken by me from the balcony of Evolution House. No rights reserved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Next year in April 2016 University of Edinburgh will host 3 major digital education conferences back to back. The city will provide a stunning back-drop for leading educators, policy makers and learning technologists to meet, share ideas and present their research. The calls for papers for each of the conferences is open now and the lists of keynote speakers and themes offer a tempting menu for anyone interested in open educational resources, learning analytics or the challenges of learning at scale.<\/p>\n<p>The conferences are: the 7th Open Educational Resources: Open Culture. OER16 <a href=\"https:\/\/oer16.oerconf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/oer16.oerconf.org\/<\/a>, the 6th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) Conference. LAK16\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lak16.solaresearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lak16.solaresearch.org\/ <\/a>and the 3rd annual meeting of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale L@S <a class=\"twitter-timeline-link\" title=\"http:\/\/learningatscale.acm.org\/las2016\/\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fN9VvuGo30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"invisible\">http:\/\/<\/span><span class=\"js-display-url\">learningatscale.acm.org\/las2016\/<\/span><span class=\"tco-ellipsis\"><span class=\"invisible\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where else would you want be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next year in April 2016 University of Edinburgh will host 3 major digital education conferences back to back. The city will provide a stunning back-drop for leading educators, policy makers and learning technologists to meet, share ideas and present their research. The calls for papers for each of the conferences is open now and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2,10],"tags":[145,28,65,19,153],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","category-oer","category-eople-place-work","tag-analytics","tag-learning","tag-oer-2","tag-open","tag-openedfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}