Scottish Digital Schools Awards extended to secondaries
A scheme promoting excellence in digital learning and teaching, is to be offered to Scottish secondary schools with the aim of equipping pupils with cutting-edge digital skills. The Digital Schools…
Edinburgh University selects Echo360 to ‘reinvent the learning experience’
Echo360, the academic video platform used by more than three million students in 30 countries, has announced a partnership with Edinburgh University “to improve the student experience by leveraging technology…
Huawei partners with University of Edinburgh to advance expertise in data science
Global telecommunications company Huawei have partnered with the University of Edinburgh to to create a Distributed Data Management and Processing Laboratory in the School of Informatics. The lab will conduct open…
Atos extends Moray apprenticeship scheme
Programme to cover security governance, risk and compliance departmentsIn addition to the 35 apprentices that digital services company Atos employs at its centre of excellence in Moray, the company is…
‘It’s basically everything we’ve needed for years’
A system for ‘taming’ data is a huge first step in raising attainment in schoolsSchools generate a lot of data. Tests, homework, behaviour scores to name but a few. Each…
‘We can’t believe the creativity’
An Aberdeen primary school has shown how technology can transform children’s learning“It’s all about creativity, collabora- tion and problem solving,” said Jenny Watson, head of Middleton Park primary school in…
Challenge of introducing tech into education
Scotland has a historic friendship with Malawi, dating back more than 150 years to the travels of Dr David Livingstone. Today, there are more than 1,000 civic links between the…
Exporting sunshine to Africa
Alan Turing’s legacy brings a computer classroom to MalawiIt’s 12.30pm and for once the Edinburgh weather is being kind: not sunny, but it’s not raining. In a tiny courtyard in…
Digital tech to support learning
Aims to develop skills for lifeChildren and teachers will be supported to work more with digital tools in the classroom, said Deputy First Minister John Swinney. The Scottish Government unveiled…
3D ‘atlas’ of human body published
Physical book generates hologramsVisualisation company Holoxica has created the world’s first holographic 3D digital human anatomy atlas, allowing teaching hospitals, medical schools, colleges and research centres a unique view of…