OER licensing before you publish
How one academic tackled image use and copyright in her academic publication.
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OER 18 Keynote
I’m absolutely delighted to have been invited by co-chairs Viv Rolfe and David Kernohan and the Association for Learning Technology to present one of the keynotes at the OER18 Conference in Bristol next year. The theme of the conference is Open for All and I’ll be talking about how we can engage students in open […]
Read moreThe Benefits of Open Education and OER
This is a transcript of a talk I gave as part of the Open Med Project webinar series. Benefits of Open Education and OER from Lorna Campbell What is open education? Open education is many things to many people and there’s no one hard and fast definition. A practice? A philosophy? A movement? A licensing […]
Read moreUNESCO OER World Congress
Last month I had the opportunity to travel to Slovenia to represent the University of Edinburgh and Open Scotland at the UNESCO OER World Congress in Ljubljana. The theme of the Congress was “OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: From Commitment to Action” and there was a strong focus on how OER can help […]
Read moreWiki Loves Monuments – An amazing contribution to the commons
The Wiki Loves Monuments competition came to a close last Friday and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I was still uploading ancient holiday snaps at quarter to midnight. Who knew I had so many pics of ancient ruins?! By the time the competition closed, a staggering 14,359 new images of UK scheduled […]
Read moreA new lease of life for your holiday snaps
I’ve been spending most of my evenings this week looking through photographs on old laptops, not because I’ve been overtaken by a fit of nostalgia, the reason I’m trawling through old holiday snaps is that I’m looking out pictures to submit to this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments competition. And as a former archaeologist, monuments feature […]
Read moreA new lease of life for your holiday snaps
I’ve been spending most of my evenings this week looking through photographs on old laptops, not because I’ve been overtaken by a fit of nostalgia, the reason I’m trawling through old holiday snaps is that I’m looking out pictures to submit to this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments competition. And as a former archaeologist, monuments feature […]
Read moreGetting the band back together – the ALTC Social Media Super Group
It’s that time of year again. If I can navigate the train strikes I’ll be heading down to Liverpool on Monday for the annual ALT Conference where we’ll be reforming the ALTC Social Media Super Group with Martin Hawksey on filming and live feeds, Rich Goodman on media tweets, Chris Bull on photography, and me […]
Read moreResponse to World OER Congress Action Plan
The following comments were drafted by Joe Wilson and Lorna M. Campbell and submitted in response to the World OER Congress Action Plan on behalf of Open Scotland and the University of Edinburgh. The draft Action Plan, Outcome and Recommendations is available in English and French here http://www.oercongress.org/woerc-actionplan/ 1. Capacity of users to access, re-use […]
Read moreEvent 3 – Themes and Recommendations
The third Open Knowledge Network event in early July 2017, focused on discussing topics put forward by participants and exploring ways forward for the Network. The following topics were discussed – open data sets, data literacy, building a network of open practitioners. Open Data Sets This discussion focused on raising the profile of open data, identifying university data sets that could potentially be opened, encouraging data owners to share their data, collecting usecases around how open data sets might be used in order…
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