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Brand new CDN Learn Online resources

The CDN team has been working hard on newly refreshed learning resources and teaching courses, which are now available on CDN Learn Online. ...

Focus on Staff Wellbeing

College staff adapted very quickly to the crisis-situation that we all found ourselves in back in March, to ensure that students were both s...

Sport and physical activity in Scotland's colleges

Thanks to Stew Fowlie, Chief Operating Officer of Scottish Student Sport, for writing this guest-blog for us. Scottish Student Sport works t...

Campaign to prevent Gender Based Violence in Education

Thanks to Fiona Drouet, founder of the charity Emily Test, which tackles Gender-Based Violence in Education, for writing this guest-blog for...

Face coverings – The impact on the deaf and hard of hearing community

Thanks to Alison Hendry, British Sign Language Development Officer at The University of Edinburgh, for writing this guest-blog about the imp...

Diary of a Modern Apprentice - Lockdown and Coronavirus

Diary of A Modern Apprentice - Part 3 The latest update from CDN's Modern Apprentice Jade Urquhart... It has been several months since I...

Partnership For 21st Century Lifelong Learning

In his guest-blog, Alan Sherry, Chair of the Community Learning and Development Standards Council for Scotland, asks: 'How can we create an ...

Launch of Supporting Student Carers at College Module

There are over 12,000* declared student carers studying in Scotland’s colleges and we know that student carers are four times more likely ...

Celebrating Scotland's Climate Week

Scotland’s Climate Week (14-20 September) promotes the message that, by working together, we can end Scotland’s contribution to climate ...

Coding is the Third Literacy

Bobby Elliott, Qualifications Manager at SQA, has written this guest-blog to coincide with National Coding Week....

Back To College

As Edinburgh College prepares to welcome back students, Student Wellbeing Adviser Jenni Moreland tells us what the new session looks like f...

Case study - Emerging Leadership Programme

Jane Crowe, Curriculum Quality Leader at New College Lanarkshire successfully completed CDN’s Emerging Leadership Programme in August 2020...

The Productive Power of Listening

Leadership expert Roddy Millar writes about the power of listening in this guest-blog....

Safeguarding the Digital Student

By Suzanne Marshall, Curriculum and Teaching Lead at CDN  As online learning and communicating via the digital space have become commonp...

5 Key Digital Capabilities for Scotland's colleges

Guest blog by the Tribal team With online enrolment and hybrid learning environments set to become ‘the new norm’ from September 2020...

Forth Valley College's Digital Community

Jasmin Hodge, Learning Technology Coordinator at Forth Valley College, tells us how the new Forth Valley College Digital Community on Micros...

College Expo20 - Top 20 Tweets

Over 1200 delegates from across the college sector registered for CDN’s Virtual College Expo event, which took place on Thursday 11 June 2...

Kindness Matters - Mental Health Awareness Week

Sandy MacLean, CDN’s Lead of Curriculum and Teaching, explains why Kindness matters now more than ever......

How Edinburgh College is supporting students - Part 2

Student Wellbeing Adviser Jenni Moreland provides an update on student wellbeing at Edinburgh College....

Ways to deal with Coronavirus Anxiety - Part 2

West College Scotland’s Student Wellbeing Adviser, Kirsty MacEwan, returns with Part 2 of her blog which offers helpful advice on how to d...

Ways to deal with Coronavirus Anxiety

Thanks to West College Scotland’s Student Wellbeing Adviser Kirsty MacEwan who shares her top tips on how to deal with Coronavirus Anxiety...

Sustainability in Learning and Teaching

CDN's Lead of Curriculum and Teaching Suzanne Marshall explains what Scotland's colleges have been doing to demonstrate learning for susta...

Supporting Student Wellbeing during the Coronavirus outbreak

Edinburgh College's Student Wellbeing Adviser Jenni Moreland explains how the college has been supporting students during the Coronavirus c...

CDN and Jisc bring you free Virtual Bridge webinars

CDN's Lead of Digital and Innovation Kenji Lamb tells us about Virtual Bridge, the new webinar series which has been designed to support co...

Beds needed for Coronavirus hospital

You will have heard that the NHS are setting up a temporary hospital in Glasgow SEC to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. Our partners at ...

A Mindful Approach to Coronavirus

CDN's Lead of Curriculum and Teaching Sandy MacLean is also a mindfulness meditation practitioner. In this blog she explains how mindfulne...

Diary of a Modern Apprentice

My first month at CDN Jade Urquhart joined CDN as a Modern Apprentice at the end of 2019. She tells us about her first month... I joined...

CDN Modern Apprentice Jade's latest blog

Diary of A Modern Apprentice - Take 2 It has been just over two months since I started at CDN and about one month since I wrote my last blo...

Creating an award-winning submission: Top Tips

College Awards 2020, delivered by CDN, are now open for entries, and we have provided you with top tips for creating an award-winning submis...

Password Top Tips - Safer Internet Day

Blog by Chelsea Jarvie, Director of CJ Cyber Ltd. Passwords are here, there and everywhere, but they are hard to keep track of and rememb...