My first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern
Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week […]
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Can immersive learning be equitable for all? Reflections from ALTC2025
On the 23rd and 24th October, myself and some colleagues from Educational Design and Engagement attended and presented at the annual ALT Conference in Glasgow. It was great to come together with the learning technology community to share practice and d…
Read moreH5P Awards 2025 Nomination
I am very pleased to say I have been nominated in the “Community Choice” category in the H5P Awards 2025, for the most innovative #H5P project of the year. Five Years of Sight Loss: A Heartfelt and Interactive Diary – by Stewart Lamb Cromar (The University of Edinburgh) Please consider voting to support my entry […]
Read moreSlowing Down
I’ve been thinking a lot about slowness and refusal; in technology, in practice, in life more generally. Slowness and refusal was the focus of an Edinburgh Futures Institute Contested Computing event earlier this month on Imagining Feminist Technofutures, with Sharon Webb, Usha Raman, Mar Hicks, and Aisha Sobey. In a wide ranging discussion that questioned […]
Read moreOpen Education and AI: Proselytisers, prophets and poets.
I’ve been dipping my toes back into the debate about open education and AI over the last few weeks. I stepped back from this space earlier in the year both for personal reasons and because I was getting a bit dispirited by the signal to noise ratio. It’s still a very noisy space, more so […]
Read moreTeaching data literacy with real world (witchy) datasets
Our Digital Humanities award-winning interactive map (witches.is.ed.ac.uk) caught the public’s attention when it launched in September 2019 and has helped to change the way the stories of these women and men were being told with a campaign group, Witches of Scotland, successfully lobbying the Scottish Government into issuing a formal apology from the former First […]
Read more7 years of Wikipedia and the Translation Studies MSc
A Wikipedia assignment has been part of Translation Studies MSc since 2016 when I first met with Dr. Charlotte Bosseaux and convinced her to try a new approach to a pedagogical problem they had; getting the students to have meaningful, published translation practice that they would be motivated to complete. Course leaders were keen to […]
Read moreOER24: Gathering Courage
Last week the OER24 Conference took place at the Munster Technological University in Cork and I was privileged to go along with our OER Service intern Mayu Ishimoto. The themes of this year’s conference were: Open Education Landscape and Transformation Equity and Inclusion in OER Open Source and Scholarly Engagement Ethical Dimensions of Generative AI […]
Read moreOER24 Conference: Empowering Student Engagement with Open Education
This week I’m looking forward to traveling to Cork with OER Service intern Mayu Ishimoto for the OER24 Conference. The conference is being hosted by the Munster Institute of Technology this year and chaired by the Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin and Tom Farrelly. The theme this year is digital transformation in education and Mayu and I […]
Read moreEnd of the Open Content Curation Internship
I regret to say that my internship is now coming to an end. It is incredibly bitter-sweet, and I am […]
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