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Educational Design and Engagement

Educational Design and Engagement

Enriching the student learning experience & supporting development of on campus and online courses.

Category: policy

The University of Edinburgh is procuring and developing an online service to support short courses for non-matriculated learners.  What is someone taking one of these courses entitled to?  And what should they be called? Edinburgh is one of only a handful of Higher Education providers who still offer short courses to the general public.  The […]

We’ve had an Accessible and Inclusive Learning Policy at Edinburgh since 2013.  It was radical at the time, particularly in allowing students to audio record their teaching, but was looking rather dated even before the online pivot in 2020.  In the context of an ongoing Curriculum Transformation project, how might we change it? I’ve been […]

The OER Service is immensely proud to announce the launch of the University’s new OER Policy, which was approved by […]