Over the last few weeks we have been sharing with you a selection of 20 things that IS have done for the staff and student community in 2020. We have of course done many, many more than 20 things, but we picked out a few to highlight them. Our Archives Team launched the Brig Digital […]
Category: 20 Things IS did in 2020
In 2020 we provided access to more ebooks, ejournals.
We now provide access to over 350,000 ebooks in total. (many more ebooks than we have print). We added 21,000 titles since start of the Autumn semester 2020. Our staff have digitised over 4500 chapters and articles for this academic session. We have spent over £134,000 on monograph ebooks with a further spend of over […]
Ongoing support of online learning
With pandemic restrictions continuing the Digital Learning Team have continued to work with colleagues across the university to support online learning. The Learning Technologists continue to work with academic staff looking to make the best use of the online tools available when delivering modules. This involves research informed methods for online delivery and creating an […]
ALT Learning Technology Team of the Year
The online winter conference organised by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) took place on the 15th and 16th of December and incorporated the annual Learning Technologist of the Year award. ALT is the leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK and organises a number of conferences and initiatives to support the use […]
20 things that Information Services did for you in 2020.
I think we can all agree that 2020 (and following on into 2021) has been very unusual. It has meant that we have had to react and respond quickly to be able to support our staff and students in ways which we have never had to before. Over the next few weeks, we are going […]