IS News

A new, short online course: An Edinburgh Model for Online Teaching has been developed to assist in staff development for expanded online teaching. 

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.

A series of openly licensed training videos provide clear and easy to follow examples of good on-farm practices for smallholder dairy farmers.

New website launched visualises the data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Database (1563 to 1736).

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.

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.

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.

A new lecture recording publication 'Delivering and Evaluation Lecture Recording', is now available.

Top tips for students now available

WGH Library will open in the Medical Education Centre on 10 September 2019

The latest issue of BITS, the Information Services Group magazine, is now available online.

ISG colleagues are recognised as finalists for an award at the HR Network National Awards 2019.

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.

Gina Maya Roberts, one of ISG’s recent interns, takes home a national award at last week’s ‘Student Employee of the Year’ ceremony.

We are excited to introduce our online learners to the diversity of data in our upcoming MOOCs. 'Delivering Research Data Management Services' starts 2 September on FutureLearn and a launch date will be confirmed soon for 'Driving Business Value from Data and AI'.

There will be an Essential Maintenance event on Wednesday 10th July 2019. These events are essential to ensure the Core Database Server adheres to security standards as well as to enabe IS to progress with crucial project and support work. In order to minimise impact, the work will be performed mainly outside working hours.