A sustainable trailer for the Sustainable Global Food Systems MOOC
In this guest blog post Instructional Designer Lizzy Garner-Foy and Media Production Officer Calum MacPhail talk about how they created […]
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Happy Birthday Wikipedia
Guest post by Hannah Rothmann, Classics undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh. This is a transcript of what she said at Wikipedia’s 20th birthday event on Friday 15th January 2021. Hi everyone, my name is Hannah. I am currently in my fourth and final year studying Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Last summer, I …
Read more25 Years of Ed Tech: E-Learning Standards
When Clint Lalonde came up with the crazy and wonderful idea of recording a serialised audio version of Martin Weller’s 25 years of Ed Tech book and asked if I was interested in getting involved, I knew right away which chapter I wanted to read. And I also knew it was one of the chapters […]
Read more2020 – The year that open came into its own
2020 marks 5 years of the OER Service at the University of Edinburgh. The service was launched in 2015 in […]
Read moreIntroducing the IDL Network
A guest blog post by the IDL Network. This month saw the launch of the IDL Network, an interdisciplinary learning […]
Read moreOpen Education Policies: Guidelines for Co-Creation
Today saw the publication of an important and very timely resource for open educators and policy makers: Open Education Policies: Guidelines for Co-Creation by Javiera Atenas, Leo Havemann, Jan Neumann and Cristina Stefanelli. The aim of the guidelines is to: “support institutions and governments in the development of open education policies promoting the adoption of […]
Read moreOpen Practice in Practice
Last week I had the pleasure of running a workshop on open practice with Catherine Cronin as part of City University of London’s online MSc in Digital Literacies and Open Practice, run by the fabulous Jane Secker. Both Catherine and I have run guest webinars for this course for the last two years, so this […]
Read morePrinting in a pandemic: the makers response to COVID
This paper, published in the Journal of European Association for Health Information and Libraries, by Mike Boyd, manager of the […]
Read moreThoughts on engaging with OERs: Rainbows all round
A guest blog post by Danielle Marlow, Education Development Coordinator, Edinburgh CRF Education Programme. Follow the Edinburgh CRF Education Programme […]
Read moreAda Lovelace Day: Dr Isabel Gal
This year for Ada Lovelace day, I wrote a new Wikipedia page about Dr Isabel Gal, a Hungarian paediatrician and Holocaust Survivor who, in 1967, was responsible for establishing a link between use of the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos and severe congenital birth defects. I came across Gal quite by chance via the @OnThisDayShe twitter […]
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