Improving the accessibility of our teaching

Reading time: < 1 minuteHave your voice heard! A recent audit of lecture recordings by the Learning, Teaching and Web Team highlighted that almost 20% of recordings were unusable due to microphones not being used correctly, or manual stopping of audio recordings. After listening to student feedback and in order to meet their needs, …

Workshops to develop new interdisciplinary Challenge and XP Courses

Reading time: < 1 minuteCurriculum Transformation are hosting three Challenge and Experiential Learning Course workshops in February and March to kickstart course ideas and support new cross-School connections. You’ll find out more about the new course formats and go through a structured idea generation and refinement process with like-minded colleagues. We want to help …

Latest updates from the Institute for Academic Development (IAD)

Reading time: 2 minutesENGAGE Network semester two workshops open for booking. IAD’s Edinburgh Network: Growing Approaches to Genuine Engagement (ENGAGE) aims to bring together University of Edinburgh students and staff interested in creating genuine and meaningful interactions focused on learning, teaching and assessment. Meetings support the sharing of ideas, research and practice, and …

Community Access to Rooms: a growing success

Reading time: 2 minutesDavid Carpenter, the group’s English Speaker of Other Languages Coordinator, explains: “We teach around 550 people every six months. There are so many refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Edinburgh who need that opportunity but as a small charity, we didn’t have the money to hire halls.”   Recognising this gap, …

Edinburgh Futures Conversations

Reading time: 3 minutesThis autumn, high-profile academics, activists and creatives are gathering to tackle questions about the future of education through conversations, readings, participatory workshops and commissioned performances. Covering the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), importance of creative arts, and issues of learning and unlearning in relation to race, gender, and disability, the …

The Impact Festival 2025

Reading time: < 1 minuteIt is open to all researchers and professional services staff involved in supporting research engagement and impact activities.  Why attend?   Share your experience of creating meaningful change through research  Learn about different types of research impact and ways of scaling engagement  Expand your network and find collaborators to realise the …