The e-learning unit, within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine’s Learning Technology Section, is seeking to recruit an e-Learning Systems Support Officer to maintain, support and test a wide range of network technology applications. These platforms include core college Virtual Learning Environments and their associated tools, Online Distance Education resources, and a broad portfolio of …
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Live Sketching
On Friday 13th April LTS carried out some live sketching from the eLearning@Ed conference 2012. Visit our new Tumblr account to see all of Simon Kidd‘s iPad sketches in detail and watch our time-lapse video of his creative process. LTS Tumblr account - http://tweelearning.tumblr.com/ LTS YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/LTSMVM/
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Edinburgh Postgraduate Dental Institute
The LTS e-learning unit and Graphics Lab have just launched a new website for the Edinburgh Postgraduate Dental Institute. The brief was to help promote the exciting opportunities available at EPDI for high quality education and research within a welcoming and friendly environment. The main aims for the website were to feature current information about …
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Supporting Derek
The LTS e-learning unit has developed a new online short course in conjunction with the School of Health in Social Science. Supporting Derek is a certificated intellectual disability and dementia e-learning course. This e-learning resource provides a practical development guide to support staff working with people who have an intellectual disability and dementia. Principal authors: …
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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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Stroke4Carers
Stroke4Carers is a website designed for unpaid stroke carers, family and friends of anyone affected by stroke illness.
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Association for Medical Education in Europe
Stroke4Carers is a website designed for unpaid stroke carers, family and friends of anyone affected by stroke illness.
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Digital Difference: Perspectives on Online Learning
There is a major new publication in which we have contributed a chapter: Logos and Mythos: The Political Dilemmas of Web 2.0 in an Accreditation-Driven Educational Environment Michael Begg, Rachel Ellaway, David Dewhurst and Hamish Macleod The book “Digital Difference: Perspectives on Online Learning” by Ray Land and Sian Bayne (Editors) is now available on Amazon …
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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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Diabetes Foot Screening – Launch Week
The Foot Risk Awareness and Management Education (FRAME) project was commissioned by the Scottish Government to produce an e-learning resource which would help standardise diabetes foot screenings performed by Health Care Professionals. The website aims to provide an interactive way of learning and uses animations and case scenarios. There is an assessment involving case scenarios …
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