Many thanks to everyone for very happy memories as a student, lecturer and then programme director on the MSc in Digital Education. What a wonderful end to my formal career; it has been a great privilege.
From 1 August, Phil Sheail is the programme director. She and I have been co-directors for the past couple of years and she has been a wonderful colleague to work with. Indeed, I couldn’t have managed without her. With almost 200 students on the programme it’s a demanding job, but there is a strong team to support the director and I know that Phil will be excellent in this role.
The team has also recently welcomed a new programme secretary: Victoria McIntyre, who has fitted in straight away. She is another person with a busy role, until recently very ably fulfilled by Angie Hunter. Angie is now working full-time in our Centre for Research in Digital Education so we’re delighted with this too.
I’ll still be around as an honorary fellow. One of my retirement projects is to turn the summer school in academic writing into an open educational resource (OER). I hope to add this to the University of Edinburgh’s OER page, which is worth a look. It’s also something you might want to contribute to yourself sometime – it already features work from digital ed students. Thanks to those who attended this year’s summer school for all the hard work and peer support. I really enjoyed your contributions.
And so I hope there is more to come: watch this space!
Christine
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Christine, I wish you all the happiness in ‘retirement’ and I really enjoyed you being my tutor as you were ever so helpful and it helped ease me back into HE.
Glad you will still be around 😉
Jenn