As previously teased, I am a delighted to say we are launching a 3-year pilot of BadgEd, a new Open Digital Badge service, so that students and staff can earn their stripes and show off their achievements in black and white! It’s taken me a while to get this in place. I am indebted to …
Read more
The Portal Services Continuous Improvement project is working to improve MyEd and Notifications, and make them easier to use. Recently, we made some changes to make it easier to see when you have Notifications to check and make it easier to access your Favourites, particularly when using a mobile device. Why was this change needed? […]
Read moreI did an invited talk yesterday for the kick off day of the OTESSA conference, part of the larger Canadian Congress conference. It was a lovely experience, not least because I was introduced by Connie Blomgren from AU, and Jon Dron was also in the … Continue reading 5 Things You Need to Know Before You Buy Edtech #OTESSA23
Read moreI’m happy to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to Mass Observation Project, 1981-2009 from AM …Continue reading →
Read moreThanks to a request from a HCA postgraduate student the Library currently has trial access to Foreign Office Files for …Continue reading →
Read moreDo you know that today is Global Accessibility Awareness day, an annual event which began in 2015. It promotes and highlights IT accessibility for disabled users. Digital accessibility is about ensuring websites, applications, learning resources, social media postings and other digital products are accessible to disabled users. Accessible sites and …
Read moreThe current central University of Edinburgh (UoE) solution for web analytics uses a single Universal Google Analytics property to collect all data. This allows for visibility of user engagement across the wider web estate however also introduces heavy sampling to the data provided. This property is used widely across the university web estate, Website and […]
Read more
This summary of the Open Scotland @10 plenary panel at OER23 by Lorna M. Campbell was originally published at OpenWorld blog. To mark 10 years of the Open Scotland initiative, Joe Wilson and I ran two events as part of the OER23 Conference at UHI in Inverness, which provided an opportunity for members of the education community to reflect […]
Read more
Reflections on the Open Scotland workshop and plenary at OER23 by Joe Wilson, originally posted on Experimental blog. To mark 10 years of the Open Scotland initiative we held two events as part of the OER23 Conference to bring together members of the education community in Scotland and some of the international delegates to reflect on how the open […]
Read moreA speculative reflection following OER23 by Sheila MacNeill, originally posted at HOWSHEILASEESIT blog. I was lucky enough to be in Inverness last week for the #OER23 conference. The OER conferences do have quite unique atmosphere. They are relatively small, and there is always a really strong sense of community. This year was no different, in fact it […]
Read more
