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Navigating UoE Digital Research Services

How familiar are you with the Digital Research Services available to researchers at the University of Edinburgh? Do you know that a broad range of data and computing services, and resources can help…

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Enhancing Student Learning And Employability With Jisc’s Discovery Tool

What is the current position of digital capability in higher education and society as a whole? What digital skills do employers expect of graduates? What skills do graduates actually have? How do…

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Using Mendeley for bibliography management

This session will provide an overview of Mendeley as a research tool, to organise and manage reference material for research and for writing essays.Students at both undergraduate and postgraduate…

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How to create videos for online courses: An introduction

n this short session you will be introduced to a duo of short online courses, designed and facilitated by the Online Course Production service. In summer 2021, we launched “How to Create an…

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Transition from University to hybrid or remote working

In this session, we will discuss the transition from University to hybrid or remote working. We will look at meeting etiquette, tools and techniques for building relationships, time management,…

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Online Assessments - Used by employers in graduate recruitment

In this session, we will look at online assessments, and cover online interviews, video interviews, online assessment centre activities i.e. group exercises, observed role play etc, as well as online…

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Data Skills workforce development - Upskill in the field of digital data

Hosted by the Bayes Centre, the Data Skills Workforce Development portfolio is a collection of short courses aimed at training the Scottish workforce looking to upskill, or those seeking a return to…

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Presenting yourself with confidence and colour!

Most of us have transferred our work and study lives online over the last couple of years, yet we can still get nervous about delivering webinars and online presentations and events, and sometimes we…

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Orientation to Learn Ultra Based Navigation

This summer will see a change to the way staff and students access their content in Learn. Although courses themselves are not changing at this point, the new Ultra Base Navigation provides a lot of…

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User Experience design – what it is and how it can help you

Design is all around us, and we’ve all experienced interacting with something that doesn’t seem to have been designed with us in mind. If you’ve ever tried and failed to complete a…

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Cracking the code for schools in Scotland- coding with Noteable in GLOW

This short talk will outline the progress over the past year to integrate the Noteable coding platform developed by EDINA, the centre for digital expertise and services within the Information…

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Teaching and learning programming more collaboratively with Noteable

In this session members from the Noteable team in EDINA, ISG will provide an overview of available platforms for programming using Jupyter notebooks in Noteable and enabling access to Python, RStudio…

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Managing Your References Using Zotero

Zotero is a popular free open-source reference management tool that can help you stay in control of your references and create citations automatically.This video will guide you through adding…

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Enhancing your workflow with the new Web of Science platform - Digital Skills Festival 2022

This session, presented by Klementyna Karlinska-Batres from Clarivate, covers some of the new features that have been introduced to the Web of Science interface in the last year. She looks at how…

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Accessibility tools for digital design - Digital Skills Festival

This webinar is presented by Emily Fraser, Design Director at 8 Million Stories, an Edinburgh based digital agency. This short presentation will cover the basics of accessibility in digital design as…

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Digital Safety and Citizenship for Students – Digital Skills Festival Webinar

As we’re all spending more time online in the new hybrid learning environment, it’s more important than ever to take ownership of your digital safety and use technology responsibly.…

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