Small Animal Handling Videos
An excellent series of high quality animal handling videos. Created by Brian Mather and teaching staff at the Royal (Dick) […]
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October OER of the Month – To Bee or not to Bee
The Geoscience Outreach programme allows students in their final year to work in partnership with a local school or community […]
Read moreStats for Medics
Dr Margaret MacDougall, Medical Statistician and Researcher in Education at the University of Edinburgh, created StatsforMedics as a resource for […]
Read moreEnd of an Internship
Somehow, 11 weeks have passed and I have found myself at the end of my internship with Information Services. While most of the other Argyle House interns are spending another week here, I am leaving early to escape fringe madness and top up on vitamin D in Barcelona.
Read moreSummer Open Content Curation
The movement by the University of Edinburgh to encourage the creation of OERs and the continuing opening up of resources therefore not only aligns with its mission statement, but with my own views on education. It is exciting to see the expanding opportunities to offer and promote new resources, and, while most of my initial focus has been on the GeoSciences’ programme, there are some interesting potential projects which would open up different types of content in alternate subject areas.
Read moreHelen Langdon’s ‘Caravaggio’
This course concentrates on one of the most common forms of art history writing – a biographical monograph about a […]
Read moreEric Lucey Film Collection
The Eric Lucey film collection in The University of Edinburgh Archives Collection have been digitised and made openly available and […]
Read moreInternational Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia
Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia. Raising awareness, knowledge, and compassion, are some of the best ways to combat prejudice and we’re glad to have some excellent open educational resources created right here by students at The University of Edinburgh which aim to to just this.
Read moreMay OER of the Month – Digital Futures
This OER of the month is actually a whole smorgasbord of OER with a wealth of content coming out of the Digital Futures for Learning course, led by Dr Jen Ross and Professor Sian Bayne, and part of the MSc in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh.
Read moreGif It Up – Create your own Gifs
This workshop was created to provide an introduction to creating GIFs from openly licensed and public domain, museum, library, and archival […]
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