Has the move to digital assessment sparked a rise in cheating among university students?
Fears have been raised that the move to digital assessment during the pandemic has fuelled cheating and plagiarism among university students. Teaching experts at the University of Edinburgh have expressed...
Cybersecurity courses to support Scotland’s next generation of online resilience experts
Summer courses to help train up the next generation of cybersecurity experts are now open for registration, the UK’s national government agency for online resilience has announced. The National Cyber Security...
Global hopes for Scottish app that helps students with disabilities overcome ‘challenges’ of presentations
A Scottish education technology company which supports students with disabilities has its eye on North American expansion after securing a £450,000 investment. The investment follows a period of rapid growth...
Students aim to cook up storm after being selected for culinary-themed Alexa AI project
A team of Scottish postgraduate students have been chosen by Amazon to compete in an artificial intelligence project to perfect the recipe for next-generation conversational assistants that perform multi-step tasks...
Scottish university strikes deal with Chinese cloud giant
A Scottish university has teamed up with a Chinese cloud computing giant in a bid to strengthen its research capabilities and talent development through new technology. The University of Edinburgh...
Almost 100 Scottish organisations and individuals sign new digital education charter
Almost 100 organisations and influencers in the Scottish education technology sector have signed up to a new national movement launched earlier this month to ‘drive change’ in computing science at...
Digital learning platform launches new web series to help youngsters navigate puberty
A leading video-based learning content producer has announced the launch of a new series, which is being offered to schools and families for free, to help young people navigate puberty....
‘A year like no other’ – honing workforce digital skills in the age of pandemic
As chair of the Digital Economy Skills Group, I am privileged to work with a lot of talented people across industry and the public sector to provide support, and a...
They say it’s a dying language – tell that to the 500,000 people who’ve fallen in love with Gaelic online
Just one year after the launch of Scottish Gaelic on Duolingo, over 500,000 learners across the world had signed up to the course. This is 10 times the number of...
Glasgow schools paired with tech mentors in new digital initiative
Glasgow schools are being paired with tech industry experts in a collaborative project to encourage uptake of computing science among students and to close the digital skills gap. Developing the...
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