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Event 3: Discussions and Next Steps

14th June 2017 EdinburghOKN

Registration is now open for the third UoE Open Knowledge Network event which will take place on Tuesday 4th July from 13.45 – 16.30 in Argyle House, University of Edinburgh. Please register via MyEd: http://edin.ac/2slQTjv In response to feedback from participants, this event will be focused on discussion and ideas. Participants will have an opportunity to suggest ideas and choose topics they’d like to explore. All topics related to open data, open access, open education, open research, open collections and archives, and open…

I was a Southside gal

16th May 2017 OpenEdFeed

Reading Time: 4 minutesTrigger warning: This post contains heartfelt love for publically funded libraries and evidence of the wonderful things in their collections (maps, lots of maps), available to use under open licenses because they belong to all of us. If this upsets you don’t read on. Also … Continue reading I was a Southside gal

What do you do with a dead chemist?

11th May 2017 OpenEdFeed

Reading Time: 1 minuteAnswer (1): Barium (boom-boom!) Answer (2): Write their story on Wikipedia, especially if they were female.* One of the best bits of my job is working with Ewan McAndrew, our excellent Wikimedian in Residence. Our Ada Lovelace Day and Innovative Learning Week editathons back in … Continue reading What do you do with a dead chemist?

Mary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red

11th May 2017 OpenEdFeed – Open World

I was chuffed to discover today that English Wikipedia’s main page features a link to sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh. It’s always great to see women featured on Wikipedia’s main page, which is viewed by around 4 million people, but I confess to being doubly pleased because I created the […]

Event 2 – Presentations

3rd May 2017 EdinburghOKN

On Friday 28th April 35 colleagues from across the University came together for the second UoE Open Knowledge Network meet up. The event featured a morning of speakers followed by workshops in the afternoon. Guillaume Evrard has created a Storify of tweets from the event here University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network PhD Thesis Digitisation Project by Gavin Willshaw, University Library & Collections PhD Thesis Digitisation Project from Lorna Campbell Wikipedia in the Classroom – World Christianity by Alex Chow, School…

International Open Science Conference report

3rd May 2017 OpenEdFeed – Open World

A brief report on the International Open Science Conference held in Berlin in March, presented at the University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network event on 28th April 2017. Open Science Conference report from Lorna Campbell The Open Science Conference held in Berlin in April was the 4th international conference sponsored by the Leibniz Research Alliance and […]

CMALT – Advice from the community

25th April 2017 OpenEdFeed – Open World

Last week I wrote a reflective blog post about starting out on the CMALT journey, What do you do?, and was delighted to get lots of really helpful practical input from the ALT community on twitter. I’ve captured the advice and discussions in a Storify here Starting CMALT – Advice from the community so I can look back on them and in […]

Event 2 – Programme

25th April 2017 EdinburghOKN

The event will take place in room 6 & 7, Floor E, Argyle House. 09.30 – 10.00 Coffee and networking 10.00 – 10.05 Welcome – Ewan Klein & Lorna M. Campbell Presentations 10.05 – 10.20 Gavin Wilshaw – Thesis digitisation project 10.20 – 10.35 Alex Chow – World Christianity & Wikipedia 10.35 – 10.50 Jeremy Knox – Algorithms and MOOCs 10.50 – 11.05 Jo Spiller – MOOC production 11.05 – 11.15 Lorna M. Campbell – International Open Science Conference report…

Open Pedagogy – A view from a distance

24th April 2017 OpenEdFeed – Open World

I’ve been thinking on and off for the last few days about the fascinating discussions going on around Open Pedagogy. Maha Bali has curated a diverse and thought provoking series of posts on the topic here and has organized a hangout to discuss What is Open Pedagogy? later today. Other than commenting on a few […]

“What do you do?” – Starting out on CMALT

19th April 2017 OpenEdFeed – Open World

“So what do you do?” can be a bit of a difficult question to answer when you work in the domain of learning technology. And depending on which area of learning technology you work in it can be a harder question to answer for some than others. My default answer tends to be “I work […]

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