IS News

The “An Edinburgh Model for Teaching Online” online staff development course has been shortlisted for the 2021 Global Advancing Academic Development Good Practice Awards

ISG has won a global Open Education Award in the 2021 Open Education Awards for Excellence.

Learn Foundations has won Project Team of the Year in the prestigious Digital Technology Leaders Awards 2021. 

This two-week course, which runs in parallel with the COP26 conference, offers you an opportunity to examine what COP26 is, why it’s important and reflect on how learners can add their voice to the call for collective action for a sustainable future.

Join us on Tuesday 12th October as we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2021.

COVID-19 Critical Care, a free short online course delivered on the FutureLearn platform, has been shortlisted for Best Small-Scale Project  in the Smarter Working Live Awards

ISG is in the finals for 2 awards from Computing Magazine Digital leadership awards. The Learn Foundations project team has been nominated for "Best Project Team" and ISG nominated for "Best Place to Work in Digital".

The University is continuing to see a substantial increases in the demand for Online Learning and as a result has hit a significant milestone.

We are delighted to present a programme of 15 Library Bitesize sessions, presented by Centre for Research Collections, Library Academic Support, and Library Research Support teams, in partnership with the Digital Skills team.

We want  Honours and PG students to make full use of library resources and services to write well researched and creative dissertations. 

The Resource Lists service provides students with consistent access to their course readings via Learn or directly from the Resource Lists homepage.

ISG helped the University stand up a Results Helpline for undergraduate offer holders to ask questions and receive advice.

Project management interns provided support and gudiance for the Applications Directorate

As part of our preparation for the new academic year the Academic Support Librarian team have been working to ensure that students starting in September 2021 will gain a valuable experience via library services during this period of hybrid learning.

We helped organise, run, moderate, talk and send attendees to the International Conference for users of ExLibris Systems.  Held virtually through Zoom, for the second year, it replaced the physical conference which was planned for Copenhagen, Royal Danish Library. 

The CRC Reading Room is now open and face to face services have resumed.