IS News
The latest news from Information Services.
ISG Innovation Programme Review Video Available
A video has been created which reviews the last four years of the ISG Innovation Programme.
Digital Footprint: if I Googled you, what would I find?
As we move around the online world we leave tracks and traces of our activity all the time: social media accounts, tagged images, professional presences, scraps of text, but also many artefacts we don't always realise we are leaving behind, or that others leave about us.
An ‘Edinburgh model’ for online teaching
A new, short online course: An Edinburgh Model for Online Teaching has been developed to assist in staff development for expanded online teaching.
Developing digital skills with student interns
The Digital Skills and Training team have appointed five new student interns to continue the excellent work of the 12 students who have worked with our team in recent years.
New videos aim to prevent mastitis in smallholder dairy cattle
A series of openly licensed training videos provide clear and easy to follow examples of good on-farm practices for smallholder dairy farmers.
Interactive witchcraft map
New website launched visualises the data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database (1563 to 1736).
Welcome Week
Peter Mathieson, Principal, University of Edinburgh, Gavin MacLachlan, Vice-Principal, CIO and Librarian, University of Edinburgh and Andrew Wilson, President of EUSA meet staff and get involved helping new students as they arrive in the Main Library during Welcome Week.
Learning Technology Team of the Year Award
Information Services Group was recognised at the Association for Learning Technology awards this week, winning Learning Technology Team of the Year for our work on lecture recording.
Online learning celebrated in new publication
We've been pioneering online learning at the University since 2005. This new publication celebrates our approach and highlights some of our inspiring students and graduates who have chosen this mode of study.
Lecture Recording publication
A new lecture recording publication 'Delivering and Evaluation Lecture Recording', is now available.
Lecture Recording Student Guidance now online
Top tips for students now available
Western General Hospital Library to move
WGH Library will open in the Medical Education Centre on 10 September 2019
BITS issue 24 out now
The latest issue of BITS, the Information Services Group magazine, is now available online.
ISG staff finalists for national award
ISG colleagues are recognised as finalists for an award at the HR Network National Awards 2019.
Online business MicroMasters programme is first in UK
Edinburgh has become the first university in the UK to offer a MicroMasters programme, giving learners access to short online masters-level courses for free and without the commitment of a full degree.
ISG student employee wins national award
Gina Maya Roberts, one of ISG’s recent interns, takes home a national award at last week’s ‘Student Employee of the Year’ ceremony.