eLearning

As the School of Biological Sciences is one of the largest schools at the University of Edinburgh, eLearning plays a very important role at the School due to its large number of courses and students. Over the years, we have carried out several projects to facilitate more effective and efficient teaching and learning. The following is a list of all the projects that have been completed or are still in progress in the School.

The academics in this School do not only excel in research, but also enjoy a reputation for dedicated, innovative teaching. The good teaching practices are documented in the following website as a resource for all the teaching staff as well as the students in the University.

The eLearning support at the School is provided by two staff members:

  • Dr Yuhua Hu (Yuhua.Hu@ed.ac.uk)
  • David Barrass (David.Barrass@ed.ac.uk)

The WebCT Project

This project began in October 2004 and ended in October 2007. The main aim of the project was to encourage and support the use of e-Learning tools in courses falling under the Biology Teaching Organisation (BTO). We have:

The Clickers Project

This project was a part-time project which was run over 3 years (July 2005-July 2008).

The eMarking Project

The eMarking Project was funded by the Principal's Teaching Award Scheme, which enabled the School to purchase 20 tablet PC laptops and develop bespoke software components to allow academics to mark student assignments electronically.

The Online Coursebook System

The development of the online coursebook editing system was started in 2008. This internal system was aimed to provide an undergraduate course' secretary and teaching staff an easy access to editing the coursebook collaboratively and generating the coursebook in Microsoft Word format whenever updates are completed.

The Good eLearning Practices Project

This project was funded by the Principal's Teaching Award Scheme, and was completed during the 2010-2011 academic year.

The QMP Mobile Testing Project

QuestionMark Perception is a centrally supported online testing system at Edinburgh University. One of the third-year courses in this School decided to explore the potentials of the system in the 2011-2012 academic year. The project was funded by the Principal's Teaching Award Scheme.

The iGEM Research Project

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