Inheriting the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Project  Hi! I’m Claire, a 4th year undergraduate studying International Relations with Quantitative Methods at the University of Edinburgh, and the latest in a long line of interns and others who’ve worked on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft project. The data involved in this project was originally compiled in […]

  This is a blog post that’s been brewing for a while.  The landscape is changing so much that every time I go to write it, I’ve heard something new that has changed my perspective.  So I’m writing this knowing full well that in a months time I’ll realise it’s …

Finally after months of scoring procurement questions, analysing costs and negotiation I am pleased to announce that we will be providing open digital badges via Canvas Credentials (formally called Badgr).This is the start of a 3 year pilot to understand the value of digital badges for all stakeholders. Obviously for the earners aka the people […]

Our ‘Colouring Book Designer Intern’ post, and many others, are now open for student applications. Come join our University of Edinburgh (UoE) team this summer!

Our colouring books ‘We have great stuff’ volumes one and two are now available on Edinburgh Diamond, the University of Edinburgh Library’s digital service for hosting Diamond open source books and journals.

With my various discussions with learning techs and IT staff across the University, I’m aware that there is some confusion about data retention across our services so I wanted to provide a place that summarised where we currently are. I’ll try to reasonably regularly provide an update to keep everyone …

We have an exiting opportunity for an experienced Service Manager to work with our Technology Enhanced Learning team. You will provide operational service management, support and expert technical advice on using learning technologies (including the University’s centrally supported services, such as Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)), online assessment tools, feedback and communications platforms.   Salary: £35,333 […]

I am delighted to welcome Craig Gilliland to Digital Learning Applications & Media. Craig joined the Technology Enhanced Learning Services (TEL) team last week as our new service Manager and sits in the same saeting block as Sean, and Miki in Argyle House, floor H/West. He will be working on introducing our new Polling service […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes My first blog was due to happen soon, so I might as well start with something I love My friends ask me why I don’t start documenting my food experiments and restaurant visits in a food blog (they are probably tired of me steering all conversations towards food and consider it would be more worthwhile […]

Digital badges are back! They never went away I hear you say and yes? Of course not but we did enter an odd phase were badges were being issued for anything or everything (I like to refer to this era as the ‘Oprah Winfrey’ era). So we all got badges and the value of a […]