Systematic Reviews: five frequently asked questions
When the Academic Support Librarians provide help for students and researchers who are conducting large-scale reviews, such as systematic and …Continue reading →
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PebblePaddlers in Paisley – the Scottish PebblePad User Group 2024
It could be argued, that whilst running the UoE’s PebblePad service, we exist in a bit of a bubble given that we tend to focus on supporting colleagues predominantly from within our university. However, from time to time – fuelled by our professional c…
Read moreThe Achievements of Professor Charlotte Auerbach
In celebration of International Women’s Day, our volunteer Ash Mowat looks to the archives to see what can be discovered …Continue reading →
Read moreIncrease your AI preparedness – new internal resource to learn about AI and how it can aid our work.
Space designed to increase your AI preparedness I joined LTW this summer as a ChatGPT and OpenAI intern. I teamed up with Wietske and set out on intense three months journey to create a report aimed at establishing what part of AI is hype and what part can actually be useful for all of us […]
Read moreApplying effective digital content principles in practice – our new training approaches
Acting on our research carried out between 2022 and 2023 and to coincide with the web migration project and training in EdWeb 2, we’re running a series of practical sessions to help University staff implement concepts from the Effective Digital Content course. Preparing user-centred content, or content design as it has come to be called, […]
Read moreLAURA Project
LAURA (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, …
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PHOEBE ( 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
Reflections on Burns Night Editathon and My First Experience of Giving Training
This post is written by new Assistant Wikimedian in Residence, Ellie Whitehead. On Burns Night, 25th January, I ran my first Wikipedia Editathon event. The event looked to add more Scottish traditions, information about Robert Burns, and Scottish women in literature onto Wikipedia. Together we made 557 total edits, added 15.5k words, created 7 new […]
Read moreDissertation prep: resources for writing dissertations
Did you know the library has a list of resources that can help you get started with big research projects …Continue reading →
Read moreUpload Stage & WW2 Educational Resource
The upload stage of Edinburgh’s Their Finest Hour project has begun! After collecting over fifty testimonies, and thousands of photographs of WW2-related objects at the collection day, we are now working through the stories and photos, and uploading th…
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