I wrote a a while back about the start of our SADIE project looking at AI in the third party systems we provide for our students and staff at University of Edinburgh. Educational technology (EdTech) services have not been immune to the excitement and rushing wave of AI adoption. It is important for learning technologists …
Category: Learning, teaching and web services
hoarding behaviour online
Hoarding 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 …
summer migrations
In LTW we meet in person twice yearly for LTW All Staff meetings and our summer gathering this year takes place next week at the recently opened Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre at the Outreach Centre. There will presentations from colleagues, group exercises and snacks. Every 6 months I ask each of the LTW Heads to …
Short Courses Platform
Our new Short Courses Platform has met its first major milestone. We have 18 early adopter courses and over 250 learners enrolled and using the new learning environment. This allowed us to establish and test the basic platform configuration including notifications, basic learner/course set up, as well as the courses templates, training and guidance. This …
Summer interns 2024
I aim to promote an inclusive culture in my organisation. I have a focus on promoting cross-generational working. We welcome student interns as staff, and while not all students are young, they do tend to lower the average age about the place. I am delighted to have such a great group of interns who will …
Marking and Assessment projects 2024 – a crowded space
There is a sudden urgent interest in improving systems which support assessment in the University. Possibly related to the considerable impact felt from the Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB) by the staff union (UCU) last year. The role of learning technology systems in enabling assessment, and the student experience of assessment ( and feedback) is …
International Womens Day 2024
This year we will be naming of the Bessie Watson Lecture Theatre in the Outreach Centre, Holyrood Campus on International Women’s Day 2024. Please join me from 9.15-10.15 a.m. on Friday 8th March to honour Bessie Watson (1900-1992), Scotland’s youngest suffragette. Bessie marched and played the bagpipes for the Women’s Social and Political Union in …
FLORA Project
FLORA (Feedback, Learning, Online Rubrics and Assessment) Ensuring staff and students have an appropriate platform for Exams / Digital Exams Digital tools to support assessment done under exam conditions (with an open question about what ‘exam conditions’ mean in digital contexts … could be in-person computer lab, online, take-home … and involve different types of restrictions to support academic integrity: …
LOUISA Project
LOUISA (Learn Optimised for In-course Submission and Assessment) At the November 2023 Learn Ultra project board, we discussed the business analysis that was undertaken via the Learn Ultra project, focusing on assessment and feedback practices across the University, and the workflows which interacted in/with Learn. The business analysis identified that there was an inconsistent approach …
LAURA 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, …
PHOEBE Project
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
SADIE Project
SADIE (Scoping AI Developments in EdTech at Edinburgh) we are currently scoping work to understand the current AI landscape within centrally supported learning technology. The scoping activity is being delivered via the VLE Excellence programme and is a precursor to the SADIE (Scoping AI Developments in EdTech at Edinburgh) project as part of the VLE Excellence Programme. …