Innovative Learning Week will be held at the University of Edinburgh from February 16th to 20th. The Educational Design and Engagement Team (formerly Learning Services) decided to have events aimed particularly at Staff since most of the events are for students (and rightly so!). We thought it would be interesting to hold a few lunchtime […]
Those of you who have read my previous posts on this blog will know that I am creating student progress ‘dashboards’ as part of a learning analytics pilot for one of our online Masters programmes. Alongside release of these dashboards to students, a questionnaire was sent to all first and second year students on-programme (around […]
The annual IT Futures Conference at the University of Edinburgh was held on Thursday December 11th at the University of Edinburgh. This is a conference that my colleagues and I look forward to attending as it always stimulates lots of conversation both during the conference and afterwards. I decided to write about my favourite presentation […]
I’m now eight months into my secondment to Information Services with the Technology Enhanced Learning (IS-TEL) team at Edinburgh University. The student learning analytics project is well underway and I thought it timely to post some impressions of my secondment so far. There are many benefits to undertaking a secondment: for the secondee; their department/institution; […]
On Friday September 19th, the Learning, Teaching and Web Division hosted their first ever Doubles Tennis Tournament! The idea was suggested by Technology Enhanced Learning Manager, Mark Wetton, as a fun way to network and meet new colleagues from across the new division which had just been formed on August 1st, 2014. It wasn’t the […]
On 29 September 2014 the ‘managing your digital footprint’ campaign launches. The campaign is for all students (UG, PGT, online) and PhD researchers. It is being led by the Institute for Academic Development in collaboration with EDINA, the Careers Service, EUSA, Student Information Points, Information Services, and other University departments. There will be various competitions […]
The eAssessment Scotland day conference has rapidly become a fixed event in the year for many practitioners from across the UK. Each year a rich mixture of stimulating keynotes and case studies, hosted by the University of Dundee, gives food for thought and ideas for approaches to the rapidly-changing world of eAssessment for Further and […]
With so many graphics software applications now available, it’s never been easier to turn complex data sets into interactive charts, maps, and infographics. However, using contemporary visuals to represent and understand big data often raises the question, “That looks nice… but, what exactly is it meant to show?”Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Social_Network_Analysis_Visualization.png?uselang=en-gb Performing an internet search on ‘data […]
For the last year I’ve been working with my colleague, Steph Hay, on a project to deliver an interactive educational resource discovery tool, and we are really pleased that the beta version is now live: Tree (Technology Resources for Educational Enhancement). So what is TREE? The TREE tool is designed to act as a bridge […]
The Scot-Bug meeting was held at the University of Stirling on June 20th, 2014. Blackboard Roadmap Dominic Gore, the Blackboard Representative, outlined the latest upgrade to Learn 9.1. Details are available from the upgrade area at help.blackboard.com. The new student preview mode is a key feature of the latest upgrade. Dominic then outlined Blackboard’s thematic […]
