I’ve had an exciting week so far (and it’s only Thursday), in a good way rather than a bad exciting week (which sometimes happens but is less fun….!). We had 3 new interns join us in DLAM (David, Hera and Otis) more about that in a future blog post) to …
The Staff Engagement Survey’s latest iteration was run in February-March 2025. I am pleased that Learning, Teaching and Web (LTW) had a survey response rate of 77%, higher than in 2023 (63%). This is also a much better response rate than the overall University (42%), and higher than ISG as a whole (75%). Overall, the …
In April I attended the Durham Blackboard User Group conference which followed the theme of personalised learning. As someone more focussed on the technical side of things, the theme was a bit of a challenge for me, but it did get me thinking. What is personalised learning? Before the Durham event, my concept […]
We are glad to share that EDINA completed Noteable Beta Release for summer 2025 this week. Besides the on-demand packages and libraries, such as Quarto CLI, Pylandstats, and ASReml-R, etc., the highlights of the Beta version are the two new features: LTI1.3 grade passing back from nbgrader assessments to Blackboard Learn Ultra course Shared data […]
You may have seen a recent WonkHE article about playful leadership The case for playful leadership | Wonkhe It announces a new research project called Re:PLAY * and I am pleased to say that ISG University of Edinburgh is a partner in this research. It was interesting to me that when the ISG directors had …
I was very pleased to add another space named for inspirational women in STEM to our collection. Celebrating the re-opening of the Eleanor Ormerod Training room in the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library was fairly simple since Eleanor’s info board was already in this room, The LST team have refitted the room and installed lovely …
On some of the hottest days of the year this week, I ventured southwards for two conferences, both featuring birds and both styled in hot pink. EchoExperience25 at the University of Nottingham https://info.echo360.com/attendee-hub-echoexperience-emea and UCISA Women in Technology in Liverpool WiT25 – UCISA At WiT Katie and I spoke about what works in our …
I’ve long been interested in the value of AI and where and when it is particularly useful or gimmicky. Given the impact of AI on the environment (and costs), I often reflect on whether the AI input is worth-the-impact. I have been using ELM to help tidy up and reword …
Many of you will be aware of our FLORA project (if you aren’t, find out more on Melissa’s helpful FLORA blog post). Named after Flora Stevenson, a pioneer of education for girls and women but also a quirky acronym – Feedback, Learning, Online Rubrics and Assessment. FLORA was really our …
We’ve been really lucky to work with two amazing recent graduates (Martina Emmerich & Zoë Brunner) from the Natural Language Processing Unit in Informatics as part of our Captioning Service Project, who’ve been looking at how we might be able to use GenAI to improve the accuracy of automated transcripts and captions on lecture […]
