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Open Education Week
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ede/2015/03/10/open-education-week/
This is Open Education Week; five days of awareness raising, organised by the open education consortium, about the range of opportunities for education & learning freely available to everyone, worldwide (hashtag #openeducationwk). The University of Edinburgh has been involved in open education for a number of years – most notably through our growing portfolio of […]
Building with Bamboo: resilience-based approaches for street-connected children - Ruth Edmonds
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/CRFRresilience/2019/05/15/building-with-bamboo/
Dr Ruth Edmonds is a Social Development Consultant at Keep Your Shoes Dirty where she generates local knowledge to help understand people and their lives from their own vantage points and collaboratively design solutions to Social Development problems. Ruth is an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, and is currently supporting CRFR’s Resilience Seminar […]
Thinking Comparatively
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ed-decameron/thinking-comparatively/
Graham Crow The sociological habit of thinking comparatively across time and space proves particularly useful at times when the familiar world is turned upside down and we are forced to reflect on what is ‘normal’. To-day my principal role was to act as internal examiner for a PhD viva in the changed circumstances of COVID-19 […]
Conflict minerals: sharing good practice in Spain
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2017/conflict-minerals-sharing-good-practice-in-spain/
Research and Policy Manager Liz Cooper reflects on sharing the University’s work on Conflict Minerals in Spain. At the end of June, I spent a few days in north east Spain at a summer school organised by the Public University of Navarre, Pamplona. A couple of years ago, Susana, who works at the Public University of Navarre, […]
World Social Work Day - A truly international celebration with shared hope for change and for the future
“The meeting was very enlightening, in my opinion it deserves to be televised.” Attendee #wswd2021 This year’s World Social Work Day was celebrated on 16 March 2021 with a shared theme of Ubuntu: I am Because We Are”, Strengthening Social Solidarities & Global Connectedness. A hugely successful collaboration between the SPS Social Work department (led by George Palattiyil), Rajagiri College of Social […]
Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange November 2020 Digest
The Hybrid Teaching Exchange is a University of Edinburgh website where colleagues can share work in progress, learning, insights, ideas, plans and resources to support hybrid teaching for 2020/21. The aim of these email digests is to provide an overview of the site and highlight new and existing content that we hope will be useful and of […]
Hybrid Teaching Exchange Digest – 21st July 2020
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/2020/07/20/hybrid-teaching-exchange-digest-21st-july-2020/
The Hybrid Teaching Exchange was launched in early June 2020. It is an internal, University of Edinburgh website designed as a space where colleagues can share work in progress, learning, insights, ideas, plans and resources as we prepare for the move to hybrid teaching for 2020/21. It has grown quickly, with over 30 contributions from colleagues […]
Postgraduate applicant experiences - usability testing showcase session
Our final Usability Testing Service showcase session of the summer (30 June) focused on the prospective postgraduate experience using the Degree Finder and associated websites. Working with colleagues from the Communications and Marketing Digital Team, we focused on students gathering the basic information needed for the early stages of their decision making process: Entry requirements The […]
Thinking about the Anthropocene
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1826035_art-practice-3-2020-2021yr/2020/10/11/61/
After reading the article ‘What is dark Ecology?’ by Timothy Morton I was introduced to the concept of Gaia theory; Gaia: The primordial goddess who personified the Earth in Greek mythology. Gaia Theory: For much of the past 3.8 billion years a holistic feedback system has played out in the biosphere, with life forms regulating […]
Weekly Changes - 08/11/2021
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfg/2021/11/08/weekly-changes-08-11-2021/
A fairly quiet week with most changes only affecting optional components. Users of Let’s Encrypt via the x509 component should familiarise themselves with the changes. Here are the full details… lightdm login improvements This week the pam_trimspaces package will be installed on all DICE Ubuntu machines which have a graphical login. The changes to the […]
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