Knitter, runner, singer, pianist, higher education digital marketer, believer in Scottish Independence. All views my own. #eastlothian
Joined January 2009
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
15 Jan 2024
On #THECampus: Moocs required rethinking how to create free courses to engage large numbers of students. Lauren Johnston-Smith @yarnoverhook and Nikki Stuart @EdinburghUni explain how their approach evolved from what they learned from their experiments
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
28 Oct 2023
Final rehearsal underway for Handel's Messiah tonight! Soloists and Meadows Chamber Orchestra sounding wonderful, and the choir is just waiting to go on! What a beautiful setting for it too. 😀Tickets available on door. Come along & be uplifted! St Cuthbert's Parish church, 7pm!
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1 Sep 2023
Ooh look @LornaMCampbell it's your Wikipedia Bessie! 🎶
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
29 Aug 2023
Being an educational institution it's so important to support students with valuable work experience that will benefit their careers.
This summer we had Ashlin join us in the @uoe_online Marketing team to support one of our research projects.
Read more ⬇️
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
⭐ Do you want the chance to win a £50 voucher? ⭐
We are undertaking some research to understand how people would find information on a test website.
To be entered into the prize draw, all you need to do is complete this research test: t.maze.co/178101324
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
20 Jul 2023
Making the most of summer by having our @uoe_online Marketing team meeting outside this morning ☀️
Great to catch up with the team face to face and enjoy the outdoor space on our campus 🌳
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
4 Dec 2022
If you missed us at The Dome yesterday fundraising for the wonderful @echcharity then why not enjoy our 2020 festive fundraising video & donate to #GiveChristmasBack to children at the Sick Kids Hospital.
Video -> youtu.be/loIHqQI7L8Q
Donate-> echcharity.org/
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
29 Oct 2022
Looking forward to our concert tonight in beautiful ⭐ St Cuthbert's Parish Church - come away in out of the rain and soak up beautiful music by Durufle, Vaughan Williams and Faure. Ticket available on the door.
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25 Oct 2022
Great pecha kucha by Ari from my #onlinelearning marketing team today at @EdinburghUni 's first in-house communications & marketing conference in the Playfair Library. She's gathered amazing content from @uoe_online students so we can tell their story on social platforms 🙌
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
18 Oct 2022
The Pans bus stop @PPansBusShelter in solidarity & raising awareness for #WorldMenopauseDay2022 #EastLothian
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10 Aug 2022
Doom dahhhhhh! When Lauren, Laura, Angus and Ross met @FoilArmsAndHog - fabulous show guys! (Weirdly, it looks like we're at a football stadium... rather than McEwan Hall 🤔)
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28 Oct 2021
Why @ScotRail do you have half the number of carriages on the rush hour trains on #northberwick line today? And meanwhile an empty 6 carriage heads back into Edinburgh? Where do the other 3 carriages disappear to?!
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
We've officially reached over 4 million enrolments on our free short online courses! 🎉🎈🥳 Why not join these learners and sign up for a course today?
Increase your knowledge on various subject areas from business to the environment to history now: edin.ac/3owlIyr
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26 Sep 2021
A lovely trip to @DalryCemetery and the Dean Gardens today as part of @thecockburn's #DoorsOpenDays - highly recommend the cemetery for a wander bonus free book library 📚
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4 Aug 2021
30% of millennials & 29% of GenZ would like to see an 'education' feature included on social media platforms
28 Jul 2021
Social media is the “go-to” medium for young people to self-educate on topics such as Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ issues and climate change, according to FutureLearn's recent report. ⬇️
futurescot.com/is-social-med…
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30 Jul 2021
Online learning isn’t “the answer” to everything ... But for the right person, at the right time in the right format, it could be just perfect. 💭My thoughts on the @FutureLearn partners' forum which I attended yesterday.
blogs.ed.ac.uk/ede/2021/07/3…
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Lauren JohnstonSmith retweeted
29 Jul 2021
Andrea Burrows - (Advice for HEIs looking to the future) Think big, start small, act quickly! #FLPF2021
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18 Jul 2021
Haha yes this is familiar! 🤣
24 Jun 2021
And here's another #steamtrain from last weekend ... Steam locomotive 'Tornado' #femalerailwayphotography #prestonpans
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