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Details April 2024
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learn/details-april-2024/
April 2024 – 3900.89 Release Default question points value changed from 10 to 1 Duplicate questions in Assessments, Forms, and Question Banks Likert answer options expanded to include 4 and 6 Auto-submitted indicator in attempt logs Overall grade information added to gradebook download Long names visible and sorting controls for the Student Activity report for […]
A card sort study has revealed how students expect to navigate Learn for hybrid learning
Students took part in a card sorting activity as part of Learn Foundations research. This helped us understand where they looked to find information in Learn to support their learning in the hybrid context. We carried out a card sort study to investigate how students expected to find content arranged within Learn. This was part […]
Programme
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ice-2023/programme/
Outline – Programme at a Glance The conference programme is structured around 1h 15min long sessions: Parallel Sessions Parallel Sessions follow the structure of 5 x 10 min paper presentations + 25 min for discussion. There are three Parallel Sessions in each slot, divided between the ICE constituent themes: Engineering, Technology; and Innovation and Entrepreneurship. […]
Getting Started with Online Public Engagement
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers/2020/06/25/getting-started-with-online-public-engagement/
With traditional in-person public engagement events and festivals cancelled or delayed there has been a growing interest in taking planned events and activities online. While it’s easy to be tempted to try and do this like for like (e.g. a public talk becomes a webinar), this approach risks your online engagement becoming the lesser cousin […]
Success in Funding
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers/2017/05/05/success-in-funding/
This blog is based on a talk I gave for our PGCAP. Given that a repeated message during the day was about the appalling tendency of academics to use acronyms that mean nothing to people outside their narrow field, I will of course elucidate… The Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice. My talk was part […]
You are the next World Class Supervisor
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers/2017/02/10/you-are-the-next-world-class-supervisor/
This is our first guest post on iad4researchers and I’m delighted that Dr Kay Guccione (@kayguccione) at the University of Sheffield took the time to share her perspectives on the valuable role postdocs play in supervision. Unless there are factual errors I won’t be making any edits to our guest posts, so their views are their own. […]
Demystifying the Pharmaceuticals Sector
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/demystifying-the-pharmaceuticals-sector/
Alison Parkinson, Employer Engagement Adviser, and Carol Macdonald, Link Careers Consultant for the Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, recently attended a webinar hosted by the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) on Demystifying the Pharmaceuticals Sector. Representatives from AstraZeneca, Roche and GSK provided an insight into student and graduate opportunities within the pharmaceuticals sector… read on for […]
Working in Think Tanks: Not just for Politics Graduates; Not only policy research
Thanks to Matt Vickers, Careers Consultant (Engineering and Maths) for this comprehensive overview on working in think tanks. Matt attended the recent “Working in the Think Tank Sector” event, organised by the Resolution Foundation – a UK think tank which aims to improve the standard of living of low and middle-income families. The event was […]
Public libraries and significant others
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/anewpage/2019/05/28/public-libraries-and-significant-others/
“To be a library in the modern sense, there needs to be a collection of books, clear access to the study material and a well-designed arrangement of seats and tables for readers. This last requirement implies a satisfactory level of light, a functional plan with a logical structure of bookstore, bookshelves, study space and corridors, […]
Advice for first time interviewers
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ellie-wood/2021/02/19/advice-for-first-time-interviewers/
This post was written because of a helpful conversation with my friend and brilliant scientist Mariana García Criado, who mainly does ecological research in the Arctic but sometimes does interviews in Scotland. The first time I ever conducted an interview was during a scoping trip to Tanzania in 2017, towards the start of my PhD. […]
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