I’ve started this blog post literally minutes after ALT-C has come to and end. I have written copious notes, and fully digesting them will probably take weeks (or months!) but I wanted to write about the highlights of the conference for me. First of all, although I’ve been (kind of) a Learning Tech for (er…*counts*) … Read more
I spent a good part of last week at Blackboard’s Teaching & Learning Conference in Newcastle this week with some of my excellent Edinburgh colleagues plus many excellent colleagues from around Europe – some of whom I knew virtually and met in real-life, for the first time, at the conference. They were real humans, it … Read more
You may know that we are moving Learn to the cloud in the summer. This is a good thing – it will mean we can do more frequent updates to the application with less downtime. At the moment, we are restricted to a single update of the application over the summer, because they require downtime … Read more
I joined IS three months ago, and have been lucky enough to join the Technology Enhanced Learning team, part of DLAM (Digital Learning Applications & Media) team, which sits in the LTW (Learning, Teaching and Web) Directorate. When I arrived, the team were in the midst of the development of our new Academic Blogging System, … Read more