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Findings from the PTAS project 'Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education'

The Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) project ‘Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education' examines the impact of lecture recording on the inclusivity of teaching and learning at the university.  The research team has been interviewing students and staff across the institution, reflecting on inclusion (of themselves and others) and commenting on perceived benefits and drawbacks related to the lecture recording service.

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Jen Ross, Jon Turner, Michael Gallagher and Hamish Macleod, September 2018

In early September 2018, members of the Digital Education research centre travelled to Istanbul to lead a three-day workshop on online teaching for a group of academics displaced to Turkey by the Syria crisis. The visit was orchestrated by Jon Turner, director of the Institute for Academic Development and one of the University of Edinburgh’s key links with the workshop organisers: the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara - https://www.cara.ngo/).

My research (supervised by Andrew Manches and Michael Seery) is investigating the ways in which STEM students learn abstract scientific concepts requiring visuospatial imagistic reasoning and how this can be supported by digital technology.  

This seminar was held on 24th August 2018 at Moray House School of Education.  Watch Greg's seminar via Media Hopper

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Lecture Recording for Inclusive Education

Dr Yuchen Wang

In July, we produced a mid-term report on the progress of the project. Some initial findings, based on the completed interviews with students and staff, are:

1) Students who inevitably miss lectures due to various reasons, such as childcare responsibilities, health issues or clashes of timetables, identify lecture recording as the most convenient and effective way to keep on track with their studies.

13th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning - SHEILA workshop 

Yi-Shan Tsai, Research Associate

How long have you worked with the Centre?

I joined the team in 2016 to work on a cross-European project – SHEILA (Supporting Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics). Since 2018, I have started to work on two new projects: LALA (Building Capacity to Use Learning Analytics to Improve Higher Education in Latin America)and EMBED (Developing a European Maturity Model for Blended Education).

How do you see digital education and why do you think it's important?

Pling Ltd – UoE spin out developing novel early learning technologies

We take a broad view of industry engagement that includes both public service delivery and policy advocacy along with the work of third sector organisations and private companies in a range of sectors.  The benefits of researcher-industry collaboration can include service and policy improvement, developing skills and the development of new products. 

'The science behind science learning', Dr Zayba Ghazali-Mohammed

You can watch Zayba's seminar via Media Hopper : https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_y0nnvhat

This seminar was held on Friday 27th July at Moray House School of Education

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