To mark 10 years of the Open Scotland initiative, Joe Wilson and I ran two events as part of the OER23 Conference at UHI in Inverness, which provided an opportunity for members of the education community to reflect on how the open education landscape in Scotland has evolved over the last decade, and to discuss […]
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The Solace of Oblivion Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 29 September 2014. Really interesting article. Toobin addresses a decision by the European Court of Justice that prohibits Google from linking to certain stories and highlights the distressing Catsouras case as a worthy discussion point: “There is an inevitable conflict between two distinct social values”–privacy and […]
Read moreWe’ve had an Accessible and Inclusive Learning Policy at Edinburgh since 2013. It was radical at the time, particularly in allowing students to audio record their teaching, but was looking rather dated even before the online pivot in 2020. In the con…
Read moreThe Online Course Production Service, with support from the OER Service, has received a Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award […]
Read moreToday’s blog comes from Collections Registrar Morven Rodger, reflecting on the 2023 ICOM UK Conference in Glasgow, addressing legacies of …Continue reading →
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Read moreEverybody’s talking about AI and Chat GPT – what will they mean? I attended an event on 20.4.2023 organised by …Continue reading →
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I’m a bit late with this OER23 reflection, it’s taken me a couple of weeks to catch up with myself and to let some of the ideas generated by the conference percolate. It was fabulous to see the OER Conference returning to Scotland for the fist time since we hosted it at the University of […]
Read moreMy colleagues and I have been doing a lot of work to try and improve digital accessibility across the University. It’s important that we try to make everything we do as accessible as possible – we want all of our students to have the same access to our learning activities, …
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