OEGlobal Open Leadership Award – Dr Melissa Highton
In fantastic news we are proud to see Dr Melissa Highton, Director of Learning Teaching and Web Services and Assistant […]
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A Culture of Sharing: Strategic Support for OER at the University of Edinburgh
Many thanks to P-8 Digital Skills Project “Strengthening Digital Skills in Teaching”, ETH Zürich and ZHAW for inviting me to speak at their OER Conference 21. Slides and transcript of my talk, which highlights the work of Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan McAndrew, GeoScience Outreach students and Open Content Curation Interns, are available here. Before we […]
Read moreCelebrating Open Access
Open Access (OA) is often the starting point towards open licensing and Open Educational Resources(OER) and is an important aspect of Open Education Practice (OEP).
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Read moreOver a year of hybrid working: What the data tells us (about women)
I was very pleased to be able to deliver this conference workshop with Lilinaz as a pre-conference workshop for UCISA’s Women in Tech Group Conference in October. It is another of the UCISA CPD sessions and builds on data we collected last year about demographic differences in lockdown At the University of Edinburgh, we conducted University-wide …
Read moreFundamentals of Music Theory – Adventures in open textbooks
Last week I was delighted to see a project that I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year come to fruition with the publication of the Fundamentals of Music Theory open textbook on the University of Edinburgh Library’s new ebook …
Read moreGuide to Developing Enabling Policies for Digital and Open Teaching and Learning
The Irish National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education has published a new Guide to […]
Read moreUniversity of Edinburgh wins OE Global’s Open Policy Award
We’re delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has been awarded OE Global’s Open Policy Award as part of […]
Read moreA new OER Policy for the University of Edinburgh
This post originally featured on the University of Edinburgh’s Teaching Matters blog. In September 2021, the University of Edinburgh’s Education Committee approved a new Open Education Resources (OER) Policy, which revises and updates our previous 2016 policy. Supported by the central OER Service, the policy encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs […]
Read moreFundamentals of Music Theory open textbook published
We’re incredibly proud to announce the publication of our Fundamentals of Music Theory open textbook, which is the first ebook to be hosted on Edinburgh Diamond, a new service provided by Edinburgh University Library that supports the publication of academic and student-led Open Access books and journals. This open textbook is the result of a project […]
Read moreClimateHub UK
COP26 is only two weeks away and there have been bundles of activities across the education sector to raise awareness and education around climate and environment. One of these has been the creation of Climate Hub UK by the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) with funding from the Scottish Government.
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