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Future student online experiences – Page 24 – Sharing the work of the Prospective Student Web Team

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/page/24/

Neil Allison 19th March 2021Our research found clear entry requirements information is crucial to prospective students. ... Neil Allison 8th February 2021Join us on Wednesday 10 March to hear what we have learnt so far on entry requirements for

Improving website provision for taught postgraduate students user research playback (event summary) – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/improving-website-provision-for-taught-postgraduate-students-user-research-playback-event-summary/

Sprint 4 Entry requirements (focusing on undergraduate widening participation students). Sprint 5 Entry requirements (focusing on international undergraduates). ... Entry Requirements – Majority agreement. We also learned of some content which was not

Building on launch: Enhancements to the Degree Finder visitor and editor experience – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/building-on-launch-enhancements-to-the-degree-finder-visitor-and-editor-experience/

Our approach to presenting entry requirements developed iteratively over quite a long period, improving each time we tested it out with students. ... This new presentation now allows AI chatbots to crawl this content and respond to users asking about our

Can AI help or hinder search? Trials with Drupal AI-boosted search and AI Assistants  – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/applying-ai-to-improve-search-experiments-with-drupal-ai-boosted-search-and-ai-assistants/

Normal search – returned results including a link to the page with a full list of all degrees ( postgraduate and undergraduate, not only History) available at the School . ... to review the listed degree programmes, explore the entry requirements , or

How we prepare Mechanical Engineering students for an uncertain future – Teaching Matters

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/how-we-prepare-mechanical-engineering-students-for-an-uncertain-future/

This deliberately mirrors the CPD requirements for Chartered Engineers. Students submit a Personal Development Plan (PDP) and a reflective piece on their learning from the course. ... Career exploration for their PDPs led to some realising that they had

Is AI changing the way prospective students apply for university?  – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/is-ai-changing-the-way-prospective-students-apply-for-university/

Read Lauren’s blog to find out more about our entry requirements tool. ... Unfortunately, we’ve also discovered that:. AI tools are not reliable at returning accurate information, especially when it comes to our entry requirements .

Improving the top task survey for 2025 – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/improving-the-top-task-survey-for-2025/

But the bar for task three, entry requirements does not overlap with the bar of task one meaning that it couldn’t become task one. ... For all postgraduate research we see the biggest impact of improving task expression and granularity.

Driving engagement with UniBuddy by starting small and failing fast – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/driving-engagment-with-unibuddy/

While they managed the people side of things (i.e. recruiting and managing student ambassadors), we created the undergraduate and postgraduate UniBuddy pages. ... answer (such as entry requirements ).

The octopus in the string bag: Why regulations based on undergraduate, on-campus students don’t work for online PGT in healthcare – Teaching Matters

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/the-octopus-in-the-string-bag-why-regulations-based-on-undergraduate-on-campus-students-dont-work-for-online-pgt-in-healthcare/

Postgraduate study is common amongst healthcare professionals (HCP’s) where additional study is undertaken either for professional advancement, interest or to meet the requirements of regulators, such as the General Medical ... Those undertaking online

Future student online experiences – Page 13 – Sharing the work of the Prospective Student Web Team

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/page/13/

Heike McIntosh 27th November 2023Earlier this year, we collaborated with admissions colleagues to design a new presentation for entry requirements in the undergraduate degree finder. ... Join us to better understand the experience of prospective