The 2010 E-Learning Awards were held last night at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square. In the category “Best online or distance learning programme – Education” the LTS (Learning Technology Section) developed ESSQ (MSc in Surgical Sciences) took home the gold prize. For a full list of the other winners please visit – http://www.elearningage.co.uk/ Take …
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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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Curriculum Outcome Mapping: Management and Delivery Online COM:MAND is a modular solution design for creating and structuring curriculum outcomes, mapping those outcomes to other relevant datasets, embedding the outcome information into managed virtual learning environments (VLE), and administrating further edits to future iterations of stored curricular outcome datasets. COM1:create Data can either be keyed in …
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Objectives for Personal and Adaptive Learning The OPAL project was funded by the Principal’s e-learning Fund to develop tools and frameworks to support objective- and outcome-based teaching and learning in the MBChB and the BVM&S. The software, situated within the VLE, enables users to create and maintain learning outcomes and their relationships.
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Cognitive Ageing Research Methods for Medical Students The CARMMS system is a that has been developed to support the Postgraduate Certificate in Cognitive Ageing Research Methods for Medical Students. This is an online distance learning programme delivered by the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. Due to the nature of delivering a programme online …
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The Edinburgh Electronic Medical Curriculum (EEMeC) is a collaborative project between the Medical Teaching Organisation and the Learning Technology Section of the Faculty Group of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. Information systems are an increasing part of modern healthcare and as such EEMeC intrinsically supports informatics skills training. Developed for the College of Medicine and Veterinary …
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eScript is an online delivery platform for distance learning courses run by SCRIPT, a law and technology research centre based in the School of Law, within the University of Edinburgh. The platform hosts a range of law-related courses, from the full âLLM by Distance Learningâ masters course (http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/teaching/llm/) to various Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses …
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Now in its 4th year, eeSURG is the distance learning website for the Edinburgh Surgical Sciences Qualification (ESSQ), run by the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (RCSEd) in collaboration with Learning Technology Section. The course is delivered purely online, through innovative use of learning tools developed by LTS. Course material is explored by students in …
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