My first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern
Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week […]
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What is an accessibility statement?
In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik explains what accessibility statements are, what goes into making them, as well as things he has learned from experience in this domain. He also talks about a tool he has started developing to make the process more beginner-friendly and efficient.
Read moreWhat is an accessibility statement?
In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik explains what accessibility statements are, what goes into making them, as well as things he has learned from experience in this domain. He also talks about a tool he has started developing to make the process more beginner-friendly and efficient.
Read moreUniversity of Edinburgh OER Policy update – Copyright, AI and OER
The relationship between Gen AI and the Commons is thorny to say the least, with copyright legislation in many jurisdictions struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to address fundamental questions about the nature of creativity. What is it that distinguishes human creativity? What happens when Gen AI is used to […]
Read moreTesting Our Readiness: Learn Resilience Exercise
On Tuesday 2 June, colleagues from LTW teams came together for a Learn Resilience Exercise. The purpose was to test how we would respond if one of the University’s key teaching and learning systems became unavailable, and to think practically about wha…
Read moreEmbedding the rules: What we learned UX testing a style guide helper tool built with Drupal Editoria11y
Our Editorial Style Guide contains many conventions and we know from research that publishers struggle to remember to apply them. Could automation help? We experimented embedding style guide rules into a Drupal module that checked content against the rules in the editorial interface and suggested corrections when the rules weren’t followed. As part of a […]
Read moreDo students actually watch videos?
It is difficult to think of a university that does not treat video as a core part of its content strategy. Across admissions, communications, and academic departments, the assumption has quietly taken hold that if something can be filmed, an open day, a student or alumni testimonial, it probably should be. The result is that […]
Read moreStop chasing, keep researching: Why continuous contextual learning is the only way to build useful AI features
AI development keeps evolving as do the ways people seek to use AI. Traditional software development runs the risk of trying to perfect AI features people won’t use. Revisiting our previous AI research helped me tease out new opportunity spaces for AI features to help with content design tasks. Last summer, Mostafa Ebid joined the […]
Read moreWhen good product practice tells you to stop: What we learned trying to externalise our Effective Digital Content course
Riding on the success of our internal Effective Digital Content course, we set out to expand by building an external version for the short courses platform, taking a product thinking approach. Three months on, experimenting with a proof-of-concept course has convinced to pause this work – to avoid falling into a build trap. The success […]
Read moreWhat we learned from Power BI training
In May, Mel and Nick from the UX team attended two days of Power BI training with QA. The training covered the basics of using Power BI Desktop and, through a mix of instructor-led and independent exercises, gave us a chance to transform data and build visualisations. Mel’s reflections Before the training, I’d only ever […]
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