On the 23rd and 24th of October a few of us attended the Association for Learning Technology’s 2025 conference at the Marriot hotel in Glasgow. The Educational Design and Engagement team had a couple of presentations in the parallel sessions, with Paul and Robyn presenting on the excellent work that our Learn Foundations students do, […]

Quick link to useful resources >> This year we have been celebrating 10 years of massive open online courses (MOOCs) at the University of Edinburgh, having delivered more than 100 short online courses and shared over 1000 videos as open educational resources (OERs). We have an infographic that captures these achievements, alongside an impressive number […]

Every July and December we have a full Learning, Teaching, and Web Services directorate meeting and I’m asked (along with the other section heads) to submit our top six achievements from the previous six months, so we can jointly celebrate the work of LTW. Well, it’s been an interesting year and the last six months […]

We held our first Learning Technology Community meeting this week; a new group but a very well-established idea. Fifty-eight colleagues, who identify their work in some way as relating to learning technology, attended to hear presentations from Karen Howie, James Bradshaw, Sharon Boyd, and Alex Burford, on their work and experience relating to preparing for […]

Educational Design and Engagement (EDE) is a diverse team of learning technology professionals who do a lot of great work for the University: from making sure that colleagues are able to build and teach effective online courses; to leading on policy development for new University initiatives; to producing and sharing high quality, openly licenced educational […]