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January OER of the Month – Approaching Religion Through Story

29th January 2018 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

Detail of miniature from scroll relating the Mahabharata. Shows Krishna, armed with a bow and arrow, riding a chariot, aiming at another chariot which is following it.

I wanted to start with Approaching Religion Through Story, a series of delightful stories from Buddhist traditions, Hindu traditions, and Christian Parables. I’m personally fond of this set of OER, not least because the tale of the Monkey King was a childhood favourite of mine, and I was incredibly pleased to see the addition of Hindu stories since my last visit to the website, and that stories from Islamic traditions are also in development!

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From Scotland to Morocco

23rd January 2018 OpenEdFeed – Open World

One of the great things about openness is that when you release something under open licence, you never quite know who’s going to pick it up and what’s going to happen to it. I know this is one of the things that can make some colleagues apprehensive about using open licences but to my mind […]

Open Education and OER – A guide and call to action for policy makers

8th January 2018 OpenEdFeed – Open World

Towards the end of last year I had the pleasure of working with ALT to develop a policy briefing on Open Education and OER. Open Education and OER – A guide and call to action for policy makers was co-authored by Maren Deepwell, Martin Weller, Joe Wilson and I and it can be downloaded from the […]

Open Unwrapped – Night Before Christmas

23rd December 2017 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

University of Edinburgh festive bauble gift by Pingked (Flickr) CC BY-NC

The 12th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is a video ‘Night Before Christmas’. The video was created by George […]

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Open Unwrapped – Mahabharata

22nd December 2017 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The 11th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the digitisation of the Mahabharata scroll in the CRC Collections at […]

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Open Unwrapped – OER Games

21st December 2017 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The 10th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is not one but two OER games created by staff and students […]

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Open Unwrapped – Hugh Cleghorn painting

20th December 2017 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The 9th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is a digitised painting from the CRC Collections, collected by Scottish botanist and […]

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CMALT Reflection and Thanks

20th December 2017 OpenEdFeed – Open World

Earlier this year, after years of procrastinating, I was very proud to finally become a certified member of ALT. This is my short reflection on my experience of CMALT accreditation and my way of thanking all those that supported me along the way. Since 2015 I’ve been fortunate to work in Information Services at the […]

Open Unwrapped – Mari Lwyd

19th December 2017 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The 8th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is Mari Lwyd, a folk custom from Wales. Dancing Mari Lwyd […]

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Open Unwrapped – Snow fall quiz

18th December 2017 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The 7th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is a Snow Fall video quiz, created by Iraklis Pantopolous to test […]

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