When I am usually asked ‘what do you do?’ by friends or relatives I consider my reply however most of the time I state that I work with digital learning technologies within a university. This is usually met with the statement ‘do you turn things off and on again?’ to which I quickly retort ‘I […]

There are about 8 blog posts queued up and needing written before things start to fade from my memory. I’ve even made a list in case I forget them. However, I can’t quite stop myself from just quickly bashing this one out if only to … Continue r…

All the best ideas start with a good lunch, and so it is with this one. Some time ago, my colleagues Jacky MacBeath, Rachel Hosker, Melissa Highton and I were mulling over lunch in the Art College cafe as to what we might do to … Continue readin…

I joined IS three months ago, and have been lucky enough to join the Technology Enhanced Learning team, part of DLAM (Digital Learning Applications & Media) team, which sits in the LTW (Learning, Teaching and Web) Directorate.  When I arrived, the team were in the midst of the development of …

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Originally launched over two years ago, the Pokémon Go mobile game is still going strong with almost 150 million people playing monthly. Within Argyle House the numbers are a little more modest, but no less enthusiastic! I’m lucky enough to be able to walk to work and without fail this involves me playing Pokémon Go […]

I have been reading a lot about AI and bots and in my own naive mind thought this would encompass working with other leading-edge institutions, SMEs and large global companies (having not worked with this technology or dare I say if it is pedagogically applicable to education). Much to my surprise upon reading articles, watching […]

The Noteable service is into its next big pilot phase this Semester. Over 500 students will be using the service this week across 6 different courses in 6 different School within the University of Edinburgh. But what is the Noteable service and what is the scope of this pilot? I’m glad you asked (You did …

We are pleased to announce that the new Academic Blogging service will be launched on Tuesday 2nd of October. Bookmark our page (https://t.co/u3ttNEq3Nn) to get further updates and for online help and support once the service goes live. pic.twitter.com/Y546JEZoGO — LTW Edinburgh (@UoE_LTW) September 20, … Continue reading Academic Blogging; or what we did this summer…

The first ProgTeach Symposium took place on the 24th of August, this has been something that colleagues and I have been working towards for some time so it was great to finally see this come together. The premise is fairly simple, across the University of Edinburgh lots of people teach computation in some form so …