My name is Fraser, I’m 22 years old and originally from Aberdeenshire. I am currently going into 4th year of Computer Science with the School of Informatics and although I don’t have plans to immediately go into the computing industry once I graduate, my degree is valuable enough to allow me to venture into my […]

The Educational Design & Engagement team and Digital Learning Application & Media team within Information Services ran the first ever Collaborate User Survey 2015 in March 2015. This survey (which was created through Bristol Online Survey) was sent out to staff that we know use Collaborate using two relevant mailing lists which reach approximately 320 […]

In February this year I organised the first GeoLocation in Learning and Teaching Event as part of the Social and Cloud based Learning and Teaching Service and was pleasantly surprised at the level of interest and enthusiasm. You can read all about this session in the accompanying blog post. I was very pleased when Owen […]

In early June Abertay University in Dundee hosted a pre-conference workshop of the EUNIS (European University Information Systems Organisation) E-Learning Task force, on the current “hot topic” of Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) and Assessment Analytics. The event was delivered in partnership with JISC because of its current work on Electronic Management of Assessment (EMA) […]

On 8th May the University of Edinburgh welcomed around 40 people from across the UK for this meeting. As with previous JISC networking days, there was lots of time for interaction and discussion, and the variety of morning’s speakers provided plenty to discuss. The notes here are my personal take-away points from the day. Niall […]

Several colleagues from the Educational Design & Engagement team were able to attend the annual eLearning@Ed Conference on April 23rd, below is a summary of highlights from the day. The theme for this year’s conference was “Designing for 21st Century Learning.” Mark Wetton Attended “Co-Creation: Student Ownership of Curriculum” by EUSA’s Dash Sekhar, VPAA and […]

Last week I attended the Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference 2015. I intended to write a post summarizing the different keynotes and breakout session I attended, but as I was writing I realized that it was already 700 words and I had only written about the first keynote! This was by Graham Brown-Martin and I […]

This is Open Education Week; five days of awareness raising, organised by the open education consortium, about the range of opportunities for education & learning freely available to everyone, worldwide (hashtag #openeducationwk). The University of Edinburgh has been involved in open education for a number of years – most notably through our growing portfolio of […]

As part of the Social and Cloud based Learning and Teaching Service I recently organised an afternoon event focusing on Geolocation technology used in learning and teaching at the University of Edinburgh. In this post are brief summaries of the presentations and links that the presenters have kindly shared: Dr Hamish Macleod, Senior Lecturer, Education, […]

I have reviewed several software options, with both free and paid licenses, to assess whether it is worth replacing Camtasia Studio. Resources: www.teachertrainingvideos.com www.andrewdouch.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/the-best-screencasting-software-for-teachers  Windows Media Encoder + Windows Movie Maker This is software that can be downloaded for free with Windows, and in theory should work without problems on Windows machines to record the […]