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US Federal Government Support for Open Education

30th October 2015 Lorna M Campbell

Last week the US Federal Government announced that it is “supporting the use of open educational resources to provide equitable access to quality education.” Building on a recent International Open Education Workshop that examined existing open education initiatives and identified opportunities for future collaboration, the U.S. Government aims to continue expanding and accelerating the use and availability of openly licensed educational materials […]

the most dangerous phrase in the language is ‘we’ve always done it this way.’

21st October 2015 Melissa Highton

Quote usually attributed to Grace Hopper. You may or may not be aware that ISG is pumping money into innovation projects designed to improve the services and offerings we make to the University. We issued a call out to our staff for ideas- below are the winning projects I have funded from LTW. All these …

The Challenge of OER Sustainability

12th October 2015 Lorna M Campbell

Sustaining the outputs of projects and programmes beyond their initial phase of funding is a weel kent problem but it is one that we still struggle to solve. Back in 2009 when Cetis were working with Jisc to scope the technical guidelines for the forthcoming UKOER Programme we attempted to address this issue by recommending […]

Wikimedia opportunities and events at the University of Edinburgh

12th October 2015 Lorna M Campbell

[Cross posted from Open Scotland] The University of Edinburgh recently became the first Higher Education institution in Scotland to advertise for a Wikimedian in Residence. The post will be based within Information Services where the successful candidate will work alongside learning technologists, archivists, librarians and information literacy teams to help establish a network of Wikimedians on campus and […]

OER16 Submissions Open

7th October 2015 Lorna M Campbell

I’m delighted to announce that OER16 Open Culture is now accepting submissions for the conference which will take place at the University of Edinburgh on the 19th and 20th April 2016. The call for proposals was launched at the ALT Conference in Manchester at the beginning of September and the submissions site is now open. Submissions […]

ALT Community Call – come and talk to me!

30th September 2015 Lorna M Campbell

Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in the first ALT-C ‘Community Call’ where I’ll be in conversation with ALT’s Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer, Martin Hawksey. Among other things, I’ll be talking about my role in open education technology, policy and practice advocacy, my involvement with ALT, and my work with EDINA and LTW at the University of Edinburgh. I’ll […]

Set in Stone

13th September 2015 Melissa Highton

Two weeks ago I presented the story of our Women in Science and Scottish History editathon at the Wikipedia Science conference in London at the Wellcome Trust*. This week Surgeon’s Hall unveiled a plaque to commemorate the Edinburgh Seven and the Surgeon’s Hall riot. I am very pleased to be able to draw a direct …

A new string for my bow: OER Liaison – Open Scotland

2nd September 2015 Lorna M Campbell

(Cross posted to openscot.net) I’m very pleased to have added a new string to my bow! As of the beginning of this month I will be working one day a week as OER Liaison – Open Scotland within the Learning, Teaching and Web division at the University of Edinburgh, where I’ll be working with LTW Director […]

Can open stop the future?

13th July 2015 Lorna M Campbell

Last week Catherine Cronin brought Alice Marwick’s review of Nathaniel Tkacz’s Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, to my attention and it’s left me with a lot of food for thought. I haven’t had a chance to read Tkacz’s book yet but there are a couple points that I’d like to pick up on from the review, and one in […]

Can open stop the future?

13th July 2015 Lorna M Campbell

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