Well done for making it through another week. This will be very interesting for us in LTW as we may have colleagues from other directorates who join us to work in areas supporting Learn Foundations and media subtitling. You will have seen that Gavin is keen to advertise work opportunities for staff who are short of things to do. The event was supposed to be in London for 200 people, but it shifted to online for 1,000 people. It’s a beautifully designed book of case studies about curriculum innovation, with many examples from Edinburgh. Ewan McAndrew launched our new publication about using Wikipedia in Education.There is much blogging, podcasting and sharing of pictures of pets.You are progressing with recruitment and on-boarding where that makes sense.Stewart Cromar and Jon Wilson are supporting ISG comms to make changes on the ISG website.This resource will help frontline healthcare workers in this high-stress, high-risk environment. You launched a new MOOC at short notice and high speed and shifted big courses from platform to platform as demand changes.You attended and spoke at virtual conferences to virtual audiences.Amanda Scully has been elected by University of Edinburgh students as Students’ Association VP for Community next year.The judges were impressed by the amount of paper this has saved, and direct cost savings as a result, they offered heartfelt thanks and congratulations for the fantastic work she is doing. Catherine Koppe was nominated for a Sustainability award for providing an electronic workbook service within the ISG training suites.The Web Team ran our first ever Web Publishers’ Community online via Collaborate.I know that there are online teaching and training sessions going on every day. I am very pleased to see how well you are managing to shift your teams, events, board meetings, steering groups and community activities online. The Principal has given us two days of leave in recognition of the fact that everybody needs a rest from work sometimes. The pace of activity in LTW does not seem to have slowed at all, many of you must be exhausted. If you are unsure, or short of something to do, please let me know.ĭirector LTW Friday 3rd April Deserted castle.Īnother week has passed and I hope you are all still doing ok at home. This is important work and the university appreciates the contribution we are making. adapting the graphic design in chapters from the Adult Medical Emergencies Handbook to be put online.helping Usher Institute to create a web database of evidence based research on COVID-19 that can be accessed by policy-makers and clinicians seeking up-to-date and reliable answers to key questions.helping MSc Critical Care to open up a Learn course to thousands of clinicians and creating a new MOOC.
Thank you also for all the extraordinary measures you have taken to ensure that the University is successful in continuing learn, teach and web. Thank you for all your work in getting set up to work from home, for looking after each other, and for taking care to be safe and well. Well done all, for making it through what must be one of the craziest weeks at work, ever. Starting a new page for 2022 Friday 20th March 2020 Home office. They already serve to be an impressive list of what the teams have been doing. I’ll keep them here to look back upon when we come out the other side. In my messages I try to focus on achievements and successes. Reassuringly, in the University we are getting a steady stream of high-level communications from HR and ‘the very top’. Every Friday I write a message to my teams in LTW.
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