On trial: Foreign Office Files for Japan
Thanks to a request from a HCA postgraduate student the Library currently has trial access to Foreign Office Files for …Continue reading →
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day – 18th of May
Do 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 moreGoogle Analytics 4 (GA4)
The 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 moreOpen Scotland @10 Plenary Panel synthesis & outputs
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#oer23 #oer2023 #OpenScot Open Scotland Reflections on Pre-Conference Workshop and in Conference Plenary
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 moreReflections and speculations from #oer23
A 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 moreOpen Scotland @10 Plenary Panel synthesis & outputs
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 on how the open education landscape in Scotland has evolved over the last decade, and to discuss […]
Read moreBBC Monitoring – on trial
Thanks to a request from staff in the School of Social and Political Science the Library currently has trial access …Continue reading →
Read moreReading up about… Wikipedia
The Solace of Oblivion Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 29 September 2014. Really interesting article. Toobin addresses a decision by the European Court of Justice that prohibits Google from linking to certain stories and highlights the distressing Catsouras case as a worthy discussion point: “There is an inevitable conflict between two distinct social values”–privacy and […]
Read moreWhat should we do with the Accessible and Inclusive Learning policy?
We’ve had an Accessible and Inclusive Learning Policy at Edinburgh since 2013. It was radical at the time, particularly in allowing students to audio record their teaching, but was looking rather dated even before the online pivot in 2020. In the con…
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