How are education and technology linked? How can technology improve education? And, what risks does the introduction of technology to education pose?
Research on education on the OII addresses these and related questions. Working closely with colleagues at Oxford’s Department of Education, our researchers have considered such diverse topics as AI’s potential for mature learners and what effect internet filtering has on young people.
UK policy makers are facing a teacher recruitment and retention crisis, driven by workload and the changing nature of teachers’ work. This project explores how AI reconfigures teachers' work, and the implications for workload, identity and pedagogy.
AI technologies are increasingly being promoted to automate or augment work in the education sector. With the growth of these technologies, this project asks what tasks and skills are being affected by the adoption of AI in the education sector.
This project investigates the relationships between equity, digital technologies and teaching and learning.
By Eric T. Meyer
How should we store digitised materials representing the world’s cultural heritage? This report synthesises evidence from the JISC’s digitisation and eContent programmes to examine their impact.
17 November 2025
The OII's Professor Rebecca Eynon welcomes curriculum changes, and urges an active role for young people in AI.
8 July 2024
Dr Victoria Nash will continue as Director of the Oxford Internet Institute until the end of 2025.
17 May 2024
Dr Gemma Newlands and Dr Fabian Stephany have been named as winners of the Achievement Award at the University of Oxford 2024 Divisional Teaching Excellence Awards.
1 September 2023
Sakshi Ghai, postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, together with her collaborators Dr. Lee de-Wit and Maria Mak, both from the University of Cambridge, recently received a SIPS Mission Award.
Tech Xplore, 23 January 2026
Dr Victoria Nash, senior policy fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, notes that Australia’s under-16 social media ban has strong parental and political backing, but its effectiveness remains an open question.
Fortune, 14 January 2026
College is expensive, and a growing number of skeptics have questioned its value proposition. But college still holds some implicit value, like teaching students things AI could never learn how to do. Dr Carl-Benedikt Frey comments.
Business Insider, 18 November 2025
Professor Rebecca Eynon, from the Oxford Internet Institute and the University of Oxford's Department of Education, says educators must go beyond preparing students to cope with technology — and instead help them shape it.
