Information Services provides a wide range of learning technology services which underpin the delivery of the University Learning and Teaching Strategy and support an excellent student experience.
The University's lecture recording service is called Media Hopper Replay. It is available in most of our largest teaching spaces and is being rolled out to smaller teaching rooms over the coming year. By the start of the 2019/20 academic year, it will be available in around 400 teaching spaces.
Put video at the heart of learning, teaching and public engagement by creating, uploading and editing video. Media Hopper Create is the easy way to make, share, and manage your media assets.
Open Educational Resources are any type of educational materials that are available under an open license, free for others to reuse and remix in their learning and teaching.
Learning design is the process of designing learning experiences, including planning, structuring, and sequencing, through facilitated activities that are student-centred, inclusive and accessible, pedagogically informed and aim to promote better use of technologies in teaching.
Digital portfolios are useful tools for providing feedback and gathering evidence of progress from learners.
Discover how PebblePad, the digital portfolio platform of the University of Edinburgh, can help you to assess your students and provide feedback in an innovative way.
Top Hat is an online voting system used to poll groups of students in a lecture or tutorial session. Students respond via an app or web browser on their own device.
The Noteable service is a centrally supported service offering access to Jupyter notebooks for teaching purposes. After a success pilot phase Noteable is now being launched as a full service, available to all staff for use in teaching.
The Online Course Production Service (OCPS) offers support for development of professional, high quality digital education, from market analysis and instructional design to media production and marketing.
