Digital Futures for Learning: An OER assignment
This post is the second in a series of blog posts for Open Education Week. by Dr Jen Ross, Centre for […]
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Sustainable Support for OER
This post is the first in a series of blog posts for Open Education Week. by Lorna M. Campbell, OER […]
Read moreOpen Education Week Blog Series
To celebrate Open Education Week, 4-8 March 2019, we’ll be hosting a series of blog posts here on the Open.Ed […]
Read moreReflections on our Adult Colouring Book Workshops
Jackie Aim, Stewart Lamb Cromar and Hristo Meshinski take a little time to reflect on last week’s Festival of Creative Learning workshops.
Read moreDiversifying Wikipedia for the Festival of Creative Learning 2019
Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world and is an important first stop when looking up any topic – it is truly an incredible resource. But its power can be dangerous. It lacks diversity both in its editorship and its articles. This means that its systemic biases can have a large impact on …
Read moreHow to Procure Open Source
As part of my work as a Board member of the Apereo Foundation, we’ve been working on new content to more clearly make the case for adopting open source, particularly in education. Alongside that we’ve been working on developing open source health measu…
Read moreJISC case study – Wikimedia in the curriculum
Addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh Summary The University of Edinburgh is the first university in the UK to appoint a university-wide Wikimedian in Residence as part of its institutional strategy to develop information and digital literacy skills for staff and students, and …
Read moreInternational Women’s Day 2019
We are taking the opportunity of International Women’s Day to rename our Boardroom in Argyle House after Brenda Moon, the first woman to head up a research university library when she was Librarian here at the University of Edinburgh in the 1980s and 90s. Brenda played a major role in bringing the University into the …
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Advice from HR was not to call this job ‘Witchfinder General’. So we didn’t. But we wanted to. University of Edinburgh has a database of Scottish Witches. It has been published as open data and we are looking for a Data and Visualisation Intern to work with our Wikimedian in Residence to help us develop …
Read moreOpen.Ed and the Festival of Creative Learning
We’re huge fans of the Festival of Creative Learning as you can see by the number of events we’re running again this year. Have a look and sign yourself up to come along and have some fun!
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