I attended the DataFest conference in early May 2025. This year’s theme, “Navigating Data and AI,” felt especially timely as both interest and uncertainty around these tools continue to grow. With speakers like Dr. Daniel Hulme from WPP, Colin Jarvis from OpenAI, and Zoe Kleinman from BBC News, the event explored topics ranging from machine […]
The private rental market is a difficult place to navigate – whether you are a domestic student or from abroad. During your time at university, you may have to move multiple times. This guide provides some key tips and indicators to ensure that the property you decide to move into is not a scam, or […]
Digital badges are great for people who earn them, giving them (another) way to evidence something they have achieved. They’re great for the organisations who issue digital badges because digital badges give them a flexible, scalable way to recognise achievements or learning and encourage professional development. But what about the people who are […]
The key words that come up from a Google search into cyber-bullying are children, young people, teenagers, UNICEF and school. This reflects the majority of content around cyber-bullying and supporting victims of it, which remains a subject primarily discussed in relation to schoolchildren. Once children leave school, and enter universities and workplaces, this pervasive social […]
‘This place is infested with snakes! I don’t know if they are dangerous, please help me!’ Taking learners aged 9 […]
I attended Connect More 2025 hosted by Jisc and whilst there were many takeaways, the presentation from Oxford University regarding building student digital capabilities at scale was a clear standout. This fantastic session started with a key message that expectation is outpacing enablement. Our students move with ease between platforms and they expect their digital […]
Hi I’m Aysha, the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Safety Intern. If you are going on a study exchange soon, this blog is for you. It’s important to be aware of different types of scams that Go Abroad students are commonly targeted with and how you can avoid them – so read on! Firstly: housing […]
Many thanks to Klara Finnimore and Vicky Drew from UKSG for inviting the University of Edinburgh’s OER Service to speak on our experiences of sustainable strategic support for OER at their UKSG OER Online Seminar 2025. Below are the slides and transcript of the presentation.
As the ’24/25 academic year comes to a close we review the excellent range of OER created by students across the University. We have four new fabulous resources to share created by undergraduate students as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute course Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City.
Video presentations by our 2024/25 students who completed the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – Edinburgh Award. The Edinburgh Award is […]
