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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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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LODOPPnet or COST Action BM0802 is interested in the death mechanisms found in protozoan parasites. These organisms cause diseases such as malaria, sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis and toxoplasmosis. The main aim of this Action is through an extensive, multi-disciplinary translational network, to advance knowledge and understanding of when, why and how protozoan parasites undergo programmed cell …
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Queen’s Anniversary Prize 2005 On the 17th of February 2006 the University was awarded a prize for the Virtual Hospital Online, a learning support environment developed in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine. The Prizes for Higher and Further Education are awarded biennially for outstanding achievements of excellence in activities, areas of work and …
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e-Climate change Impacts & Adaptation Climate change impacts & adaptation is currently a first semester core course of the MSc in Carbon Management – a programme run jointly since 2008 by the Schools of GeoSciences, Economics, and the Business School. Dr Dave S. Reay, the programme director for MSc Carbon Management is working closely with …
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The mobile phone, the VLE and intravenous access Case study by Jo Spiller, MVM, and Sam Smith, Centre for Medical Education Throughout 2010-2011, a research project has been running from within the Centre for Medical Education, to record students’ cannulation practice. Each time a cannulation is performed, participating students are required to record whether the …
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LTS is responsible for designing, developing and hosting several popular WordPress websites. We have expertise within our e-learning team to create custom themes, plugins and widgets that extend the core functionality a default WordPress build offers. WordPress Portfolio http://dementia.mvm.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.iconzafrica.org/ http://www.internalmeded.org http://www.onehealthglobal.net/ http://openmed.co.uk http://malawi.mvm.ed.ac.uk http://www.scotonline.org/ http://www.stroke4carers.org/ Hub Hub is a multisite WordPress instance established by LTS …
Read MoreeWriting
eWriting is an online resource to assist post-graduate students to manage their PhD and Master thesis planning. This project is being developed as a collaboration between University of Edinburgh, Glasgow Caledonian University and University of Glasgow. LTS are the key technical partner in the project and have developed the framework and content of the site. …
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eTranskills is a portal embedded within the post-graduate MVM VLE (EEPoP) that aims to offer post-graduate student PhD and Masters students access to a range of relevant resources. One of the resources available is the course âGood Practice in PhD Researchâ which was translated from a face-to-face course run by Transkills to an online version …
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Collaborative Learning Environment Online CLEO is a collaboration of the four Scottish Dental Schools, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow with NHS Education Scotland (NES). Each Dental School/Institute are creating learning resources using their particular expertise for their students. This will then be shared through a repository held by NES. Edinburgh Dental Institute and LTS are …
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