Building on previous research analysis on who attends training, in what mode: We know from our research that men in College of Science and Engineering (CSE) are less likely to access digital skills training than women. This highlights a risk that they may get left behind. My Digital Skills Training Team conducted a mapping exercise, …
Read moreOn 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.
Read moreIt was my honour this weekend to be part of a Bat Mitzvah ceremony for the daughter of one of my oldest friends. The Bat Mitzvah girl has grown into an engaging, lively, curious and clever young woman and it was lovely to see her take this step into adulthood as she comes of age. …
Read moreI am pleased to be able to offer paid work to 20 student interns to work in ISG as captioners. Alongside AI tools which generate automated captions and transcripts, the human captioners ensure that the standard of quality is good enough to support students with hearing difficulties. This semester (to 5th March) they have …
Read moreHoarding and storage of old stuff indefinitely is a challenging user behaviour for several of our platforms. Cloud storage costs the university money. Users may be unaware of the need to align with data protection rules and to reduce our impact on the environment, every little bit helps and we have a huge amount of …
Read moreWe have been looking at the data about students attending skills courses. At University of Edinburgh students have a choice of whether to work through online materials in LinkedIn Learning at their own pace or to attend synchronous teacher-led sessions with our Digital Skills Training team, in person or via webinars. The data show that …
Read moreLAURA (Learning Analytics in ULTRA) This project will support improving the student experience by ensuring that students, teachers and student support staff are making best use of the data, information and dashboards that are currently available in Learn, and other centrally supported learning technology applications, to gain useful insights. It will tackle perceived gaps in reporting, …
Read morePHOEBE ( Portfolios for Online, Experiential, Blogging and Evidence)
we will be reviewing our e-portfolio and blogging tools.
For Phoebe Bythe, Edinburgh campaigner for women’s training and employment. Phoebe Blyth – Wikipedia
Thank you to everyone who came to our Ada Lovelace Day celebrations -to listen to talks, make badges, edit Wikipedia, and generally celebrate women in STEM. Thank you as well to those who walked the Women in STEM trail and took their pictures with the inspiring women featured. Special thanks to our guest …
Read moreI’ll be speaking at Kaltura Connect Education Track 2023 – EMEA | Kaltura 28th November, London I will speak about ‘The Promise of Video’ What do we expect from our media platforms? What do our students and users expect? How can we ensure that the promise of a generation of video is realised? During academic …
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