Edinburgh Open Research Conference Proceedings
One of the ambitions for the EOR conference held in March, 2022, when we first started planning it was to …Continue reading →
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Weeks 7 and 8 – Hubble Bubble Spreadsheets and Trouble
Hi all, that’s week 8 of the internship completed! Had some time off for holidays so not had the full time to work on witchy data but back at it now. By now we are finishing off our processing stage and doing the last bits of data wrangling. Recently we have been doing a LOT […]
Read moreProcurement aka the crack in everything that lets the bullshit in
I’ve been thinking and writing and talking a lot about edtech procurement recently. In fact I’ve been thinking and writing and talking about it for years but it feels like in this moment it might just be getting a little more traction. It might of … Continue reading Procurement aka the crack in everything that lets the bullshit in
Read moreWeeks 3 and 4: Site re-development is underway
Hi, my name is Josep Garcia-Reyero and I am the Open-Source Development intern for the summer, which means I get to help re-develop the Mapping of Accused Witches of Scotland site – welcome to my first blog post! I am a Mathematics student at the University of Edinburgh, going into my fourth year of study […]
Read moreYouTube loves our cows
Over 100,000 people on YouTube have watched our openly licensed training videos that aim to prevent mastitis in smallholder dairy cattle.
Read moreWeeks 5 and 6 – Some Data Processing Sorcery
So we are at the end of week 6, almost half of the way through the internship, and time seems to have flown by. These past weeks I have been put to work with data processing, and bulk editing Wikidata with all sorts of information extracted from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. What we […]
Read moreOpen for Good – New brochures from the OER and Online Course Production Services
We’re delighted to announce the publication of two new brochures from the OER Service and the Online Course Production Service, […]
Read moreFundamentals of Music Theory: Co-creating sustainable open textbooks for music education
University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2022 presentation by Lorna M. Campbell, Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu, Ana Reina Garcia, Nikki Moran and Rebecca Wojturska. Fundamentals of Music Theory: Co-creating sustainable open textbooks for music…
Read moreWeeks 1 and 2 – Something Wiki’d this Way Comes
Hi, my name is Maggie and I’ve just completed my third year of a Computer Science degree at the University of Edinburgh. This summer I’ve been lucky enough to be appointed the new Scottish Witchcraft Data Visualisation Intern here at the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services Group. Welcome to my first blog post ???? Through […]
Read moreOER22 In Person & Online
Last week I was at the OER22 Conference, and I was actually at the conference because for the first time in two years the OER Conference was in person and online. OER22 was a hybrid conference in every sense of the word; the first day took place in London, the second day featured recorded online […]
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