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Photographs of 7 different people – various ages, ethnicities and genders. One person is highlighted in yellow.

Interactive Content developer Jackie Aim shares her early experiments with Generative AI when creating educational short videos. In particular, using Adobe’s commercially safe Firefly to extend stock video footage and generate bespoke imagery.

Flowchart detailing breakdown of different emission sources associated with use of digital services. It is annotated with sticky notes that include questions and notes.

How do we measure web service emissions? is one of the questions that I have been hired to tackle. My name is Otis Laundon, and I’m the new Green Web Platforms Intern. My first 2 weeks in the office have been super enjoyable, from familiarising myself with our beloved Argyle House, to meeting some of […]

The numbers have been crunched, the results are in.  We’ve had record usage of our lecture recording service by our staff and students this year! We’ve had a whopping 40,160 recordings created since June 2024 and a massive 28,945,731 minutes of lectures watched in the same time frame. Of course, …

A multidimensional see-saw, trying to balance the impact of the environment of our services with information security, usability, functionality and cost.

I’ve had an exciting week so far (and it’s only Thursday), in a good way rather than a bad exciting week (which sometimes happens but is less fun….!).   We had 3 new interns join us in DLAM (David, Hera and Otis) more about that in a future blog post) to …

Durham Cathedral

    In April I attended the Durham Blackboard User Group conference which followed the theme of personalised learning. As someone more focussed on the technical side of things, the theme was a bit of a challenge for me, but it did get me thinking. What is personalised learning? Before the Durham event, my concept […]

We are glad to share that EDINA completed Noteable Beta Release for summer 2025 this week. Besides the on-demand packages and libraries, such as Quarto CLI, Pylandstats, and ASReml-R, etc., the highlights of the Beta version are the two new features: LTI1.3 grade passing back from nbgrader assessments to Blackboard Learn Ultra course Shared data […]

I’ve long been interested in the value of AI and where and when it is particularly useful or gimmicky.  Given the impact of AI on the environment (and costs), I often reflect on whether the AI input is worth-the-impact. I have been using ELM to help tidy up and reword …

Flora

Many of you will be aware of our FLORA project (if you aren’t, find out more on Melissa’s helpful FLORA blog post).  Named after Flora Stevenson, a pioneer of education for girls and women but also a quirky acronym – Feedback, Learning, Online Rubrics and Assessment.  FLORA was really our …

  We’ve been really lucky to work with two amazing recent graduates (Martina Emmerich & Zoë Brunner) from the Natural Language Processing Unit in Informatics as part of our Captioning Service Project, who’ve been looking at how we might be able to use GenAI to improve the accuracy of automated transcripts and captions on lecture […]

Ellie in her scrubs

A guest blog post from one of our human-captioners, Ellie Kerr. Ellie joined us back in 2023 and is one of our original captioners – when we only had a team of 2. Now we have 20 part-time captioners who work on correcting automated captions across our lecture recordings and other media.   I never […]

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