LGBT+ History Month OERs
February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK each year with the overall aim to promote equality and diversity for […]
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Sustainable Futures & Live at COP26
Videos from the two short free online courses on Learning for Sustainable futures and Live at COP26 are now open licensed and available for anyone to view, use, and re-use under Creative Commons licences.
Read moreThe Penguin and the Piper: Telling a different story
Today is Word Penguin Day so I took the opportunity to share some of my all time favourite open licensed […]
Read moreOpen eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project Final Report
This is the final report of the Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project. Introduction Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education was a Student Experience Grant funded research and development project that ran from February to July 2021. The project was managed by the OER Service based in Learning, Teaching and Web Services, […]
Read moreNew Stroke Module ‘Hyperacute Stroke Decision Making for Clinicians’
In partnership with Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce that a new open-access STARs e-learning module is launching to coincide with this year’s UK Stroke Forum virtual conference 30th November to…
Read moreOEGlobal Open Student Award – Hannah Rothmann
Wikipdia student intern (2020) Hannah Rothmann has been awarded the 2021 OEGlobal Awards for Excellence Open Student Award for her […]
Read moreOEGlobal 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 […]
Read moreA 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 …
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