For the Common Good
Everyday learning and teaching
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Edinburgh’s Treasures
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Sustainable Development Goals
We believe that OER can make a critical contribution to achieving the aims of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which the University and Students Association are committed to through the SDG Accord.
We have collected OERs from our showcase that are in line with specific SDG and listed them for ease of educators wishing to find SDG aligned resources.
Blog Posts
June 4, 2026 5:44 pm
The relationship between Gen AI and the Commons is thorny to say the least, with copyright legislation in many jurisdictions struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to address fundamental questions about the nature of creativity. What is it that distinguishes human creativity? What happens when Gen AI is used to […]
June 4, 2026 3:33 pm
On Tuesday 2 June, colleagues from LTW teams came together for a Learn Resilience Exercise. The purpose was to test how we would respond if one of the University’s key teaching and learning systems became unavailable, and to think practically about wha...
June 1, 2026 2:32 pm
Our Editorial Style Guide contains many conventions and we know from research that publishers struggle to remember to apply them. Could automation help? We experimented embedding style guide rules into a Drupal module that checked content against the rules in the editorial interface and suggested corrections when the rules weren’t followed. As part of a […]
June 1, 2026 11:16 am
It is difficult to think of a university that does not treat video as a core part of its content strategy. Across admissions, communications, and academic departments, the assumption has quietly taken hold that if something can be filmed, an open day, a student or alumni testimonial, it probably should be. The result is that […]
May 29, 2026 1:56 pm
AI development keeps evolving as do the ways people seek to use AI. Traditional software development runs the risk of trying to perfect AI features people won’t use. Revisiting our previous AI research helped me tease out new opportunity spaces for AI features to help with content design tasks. Last summer, Mostafa Ebid joined the […]
OER Channels
Edinburghs OERs
OERs from across the University
TES Resources
Award winning open resources for school teachers.
Short Online Courses
Free short online courses.
Open Media Bank
Videos from our MOOCs & free short online courses.
Media Hopper Create
Creative Commons licensed videos.
Open Media Stock Footage
Open licensed media snippets for downloading & reuse.
Wikimedian in Residence
Videos from our Wikimedian in Residence.
3D Models
Open licensed models of heritage, geology & anatomy artefacts.
