The Digital Education Service now has a dedicated team of more than 90 professionals, experts in the fields of learning design, multimedia production, student education and marketing. We are committed to continuous professional development through working with other organisations to ensure our team (and our courses) remain at the cutting-edge of online education and play a part in shaping online learning for the sector.
The University of Galway was founded in 1845 and is located in western Ireland on the rugged coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It has a student population of nearly 19,000, 17% of which are international students from 122 countries. The university provides teaching and research across the sciences, social sciences and humanities, delivered through four colleges, 19 schools, five research institutes and a range of research centres and clusters. University of Galway aims to foster a vibrant community of students and staff, where distinguished learning, impactful research, and creative thinking are shared with the world. Four institutional core values underpin this: respect, openness, sustainability and excellence. Within University of Galway, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) supports and enables the development of a culture of excellence in teaching and learning by promoting methods that encourage active learner engagement and critical thinking. CELT is very much research-led and participates in international organisations and fora in the areas of teaching, evaluation, technology and higher education research.
LINK has a special responsibility for ensuring knowledge sharing, creating networks across subjects and disciplines, further developing teaching expertise and increasing students’ learning outcomes across the University of Oslo. We are a resource for lecturers, students and units, and our activities are developed with research-based knowledge about higher education. We have a strong media production unit, with comprehensive film production skills.
The University of Groningen was founded in 1614 and has over 6.000 fte staff and 36.000 students, spread over 11 faculties. It participates in various national and international projects aiming at innovating the use of multimedia in education. The university has so far published 14 MOOCs on the Futurelearn platform. Its facilities include professional broadcasting studios and a growing number of do-it-yourself studios. In addition, the Reality Center offers highly advanced Virtual Reality (VR) facilities for research and education.
The University of Michigan’s Center for Academic Innovation is committed to bringing educational opportunities from the university to a global network of lifelong learners. Through curricular innovation in online, hybrid, and blended programmes, use of emerging technologies like extended reality, the development of tools for student success and equity, and educational research and analytics, the centre is working toward a future in which education connects and empowers learners on campus and around the world to reach their full potential throughout their lives.
The Université Ouverte des Humanités (UOH) is one of the eight digital universities in France. The disciplinary fields of the institution are the following: human sciences, social sciences, letters, languages and arts. The missions of this university are: – Support teachers in the blended learning class – Promoting better student success, particularly in bachelor’s degree I and II. – Assess the valorisation, the diffusion and the production of digital and pedagogical resources. – Index and diffusion of the institutional portal web for contribute to the development of “L’Université Numérique”
The Audiovisual Center (AVC) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is a centre of expertise on video in education. It produces video, such as educational videos, webinars, live streams and podcasts and provides policymakers, teachers and supporting staff with advice on the use of audiovisual media in education with a pedagogical, technical and organisational point of view.
virtUOS is an academic service provider for the entire university. Our services range from pedagogical consulting for lecturers, infrastructure services for digital teaching (LMS, lecture recording, video conferencing and more) to the management of student data. Additionally virtUOS is also a research and development department, where several software developers work on open-source educational software, and pedagogues research the effect of digital teaching projects.
Since 1495, the University of Aberdeen has held space for debate, discussion and discourse, sparking lasting, generational change. For over 525 years we have been at the forefront of education, leading innovation with pioneering research. Our medieval campus has helped shape the modern world and now sits at the centre of global energy transition in Aberdeen; alongside our Foresterhill campus providing preventive healthcare solutions that push the boundaries of health research. With our diverse student population exploring perspectives through different lenses, our researchers are pushing boundaries in five key interdisciplinary areas, and our ever-evolving community of alumni going beyond Aberdeen to spark change globally, the people of Aberdeen are truly original, world changing boundary breakers.