New Director of Edinburgh Dental Institute to put Scotland back on the dental training map This ITN Productions short video was originally published on their Healthcare News website 08/03/2013, the reporter is Sarah Lockett. Featuring Oonagh Lawrie – Programme Director, EDI Matthew Brennand Roper – Postgraduate Student, EDI Malcolm Dewar – Dentist, Morningside Drive Dental Practice Zainab …
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Centre for Research on Families and Relationships The CRFR project arose from the need of CRFR to update their existing website which was a collection of static HTML webpages. With no in-house website developer they were keen for a solution that they would be able to manage with minimal support and additional development. A WordPress …
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Centre for Research on Families and Relationships
The new Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) WordPress site developed by LTS is now live. The new site provides CRFR with a modern redesign while giving them more power to manage the different areas of the site for themselves. The fully customised theme provides the ability to disseminate important information about the …
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Job Vacancy: e-Learning Systems Developer
The e-learning unit, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine’s Learning Technology Section (LTS), is seeking to recruit an e-learning systems developer to build, maintain and support computer based teaching and learning resources to support medical, veterinary and other healthcare education both within the University and in partnership with our portfolio of external partners. …
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The MSc in Primary Dental Care is a bespoke Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) built by LTS for The Edinburgh Dental Institute and funded by The University of Edinburgh’s Distance Education Initiative (DEI). The course was officially launched on the 4th of February 2013. The VLE includes: Interactive course content Student noticeboard Student discussion boards Reflective ePortfolio – …
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MSc in Primary Dental Care
The MSc in Primary Dental Care is a bespoke Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) built by Learning Technology Section (LTS) for The Edinburgh Dental Institute and funded by The University of Edinburgh’s Distance Education Initiative (DEI). Launched in early February the course is now well underway. The VLE includes: Interactive course content Student noticeboard Student discussion boards Reflective ePortfolio …
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Six New Stroke Advancing Modules
Launching today are 6 new advancing modules on the Stroke Advancing Modules website. This is an e-learning resource from Learning Technology Section (LTS), NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland (CHSS) aimed at registered staff working in stroke services. These modules are the final addition to the successful STARs project and cover …
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AMEE 2012
This years Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) conference takes place in Lyon, France. The Learning Technology Section will be running a pre-conference workshop and presenting a number of short communications. There are also a number of presentations from LTS collaborators. Here is the complete list: Saturday 25th August 0915-1215 (PCW8) Pre-conference Workshop - “From 4000 …
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Stroke Competency Toolkit (SCoT)
The LTS e-learning team in collaboration with NHS Scotland, Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland and NHS Education Scotland, has developed a new online CPD system for staff working in stroke in Scotland. www.scotonline.org is an online format of the Stroke Competency Toolkit (SCoT). The interactive design supports user learning needs in stroke and assists users …
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Run, LTS! Run!
LTS staff members Matt, Pat, Fernando and Ianthe (as well as Michael in spirit) are running the Hairy Haggis, aka the Edinburgh Marathon Relay. We’ve chosen the Bethany Christian Trust as our charity since they do great work for homeless people in Edinburgh. Please sponsor Team LTS at our JustGiving page: http://www.justgiving.com/teamlts The 26.2 miles …
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