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The latest updates about projects, events and people in the Applications Directorate

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Learning design for hybrid teaching

17 June, 2020

A set of new resources to support learning design for hybrid teaching has been developed by…

Double Upgrade of Worktribe System planned

15 June, 2020

Worktribe, a research management platform used by the University, is being upgraded from version 3…

Blackboard Catalyst Award for Learn Foundations

03 June, 2020

The Learn Foundations team has won the 2020 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Student Experience.

Learning Technology podcasts

03 June, 2020

A series of  popular open licensed podcasts by Michael Gallagher and Myles Blaney are available to…

Responding to lockdown – a snapshot of provision and support

19 May, 2020

In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic most teaching at Edinburgh was pivoted to online…

Online open day participants confident in University's online learning provision

18 May, 2020

More than 500 prospective online students from 135 countries participated in live online learning…

Develop your digital skills online

05 May, 2020

With the shift to remote working, digital skills proficiency has never been more important. The…

Women of Climate Change

01 May, 2020

Training webinar held on Earth Day to create more biographies of women on Wikipedia.

3D visor model on Sketchfab

01 May, 2020

In this time of Covid-19 crisis our ISG teams in UCreate Makerspace have been working hard to…

Student Record System (EUCLID) upgraded

30 April, 2020

Student record system (SITS) successfully upgraded