Inspired by a conversation with Lauren today, and some recent announcements, I am updating our timeline of learning technology developments at University of Edinburgh. Are there other things I should include?
- 2002? WebCT VLE on campus
- 20003 – ERA- Open access repository in the library
- September 2005, Edinburgh Law School launched its first online distance learning programme
- September 2006 – Launch of Online MSc Digital Education ( e-learning)
- Sept 2007 -online MSc in surgical sciences from Edinburgh University.The qualification is offered jointly by the University and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
- 2007 – Edinburgh University classes offered in Second Life virtual world
- June 2009- First pilot of automated lecture recording -CaptureEd
- 2009 Edinburgh joins ItunesU
- 2011 Manifesto for teaching online – Written by teachers and researchers in online education. University of Edinburgh 2011
- July 2012- we are the first UK institution to join Coursera to do MOOCs
- 2013 – Edinburgh’s excellence in distance learning has been recognised with a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education
- June 2013- Edinburgh joins the new Futurelearn Platform
- January 2014 – 14,200 Open Access publications in Library
- 2014- Edinburgh appoints (8?) Chairs of Technology Enhanced Education- including a Chair of Learning Analytics
- 2013- Launch of the Nobel Higgs MOOC
- 2014 -Edinburgh students begin working with Google Glasses
- May 2015 – Teacherbot is born
- June 2015- 2 million MOOC learners choose Edinburgh courses
- October 2015- launch of the Digital Education Research Centre
- December 2015- University hosts the first Wikimedian in Residence in UK HE learning and teaching
- January 2016 – University of Edinburgh approves Open Educational Resources Policy
- 2016 – Manifesto for teaching online – Written by teachers and researchers in online education
- 2016- Minecraft used for teaching in MSc Dig Ed
- April 2016 – Edinburgh hosts a ‘Festival of Digital Learning’ featuring 3 large international conferences: OER16, LAK and Learning@scale
- October 2016 – we launch EdinburghX on Edx
- March 2017- Launch of UCreate Maker Space in the Main Library
- September 2017 – large scale implementation of lecture recording begins
- October 2017- Near Future Teaching project begins
- September 2018- Launch of the Jupyter Notebooks service with EDINA
- September 2018 – We have 3,600 active online students and more than 4,000 alumni from online courses.
- October 2018- The University of Edinburgh will be the first European university to offer MicroMasters and Masters on edX
- October 2018 –new Academic Blogging Service launched
- October 2018 – Lecture recording opt-out policy announced to begin in January 2019
- January 2019 – Lecture recording opt-out
- July 2019 – Online business MicroMasters course is first in UK
- September 2019 – ALT-C conference returns to Edinburgh for the first time since 9/11
