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Sustainable Development Goals
We believe that OER can make a critical contribution to achieving the aims of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which the University and Students Association are committed to through the SDG Accord.
We have collected OERs from our showcase that are in line with specific SDG and listed them for ease of educators wishing to find SDG aligned resources.
Sustainable Development Goal OERs
Blog Posts
Overview and reflections on the UKSG OER Seminar 2026
September 7, 2026 9:20 am
After presenting Strategic support for OER at The University of Edinburgh at the UKSG OER Seminar in 2025, I was keen to attend the 2026 seminar this year purely as an attendee to learn more about what other institutions are currently focusing on in the world of Open Education Resources (OER). I’d noticed in the 2025 seminar that a lot of attention was focused on Open Textbooks, as UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries this makes sense. This year while there was still a strong focus on scholarly texts, there was an increase in attention to other types of open licensed learning and teaching output.
September 7, 2026 9:20 am
After presenting Strategic support for OER at The University of Edinburgh at the UKSG OER Seminar in 2025, I was keen to attend the 2026 seminar this year purely as an attendee to learn more about what other institutions are currently focusing on in the world of Open Education Resources (OER). I’d noticed in the 2025 seminar that a lot of attention was focused on Open Textbooks, as UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries this makes sense. This year while there was still a strong focus on scholarly texts, there was an increase in attention to other types of open licensed learning and teaching output.
Wiki loves Monuments 2026 – The world’s largest photo competition returns
September 2, 2026 4:14 pm
The world’s largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, returns this month for its 16th year. Eight years ago, Scotland was voted the most beautiful country in the world in a Rough Guide readers’ poll. For some reason we’re not in the top 20 this year …. but hey ho, there’s still nowhere quite like it. […]
September 2, 2026 4:14 pm
The world’s largest photo competition, Wiki Loves Monuments, returns this month for its 16th year. Eight years ago, Scotland was voted the most beautiful country in the world in a Rough Guide readers’ poll. For some reason we’re not in the top 20 this year …. but hey ho, there’s still nowhere quite like it. […]
For Those in Peril on the Sea: Mapping Scotland’s lighthouses on Wikipedia
September 2, 2026 3:19 pm
Join us for an expert-led guided tour of the exhibition ‘For the Safety of All: Scotland’s Lighthouses’ followed by a fun and interactive Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Wed 23rd September. Let’s improve coverage of Scottish lighthouses in a stunning, historical building of the National Records of Scotland and turn Wikipedia’s “red links” (pages that don’t YET […]
September 2, 2026 3:19 pm
Join us for an expert-led guided tour of the exhibition ‘For the Safety of All: Scotland’s Lighthouses’ followed by a fun and interactive Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Wed 23rd September. Let’s improve coverage of Scottish lighthouses in a stunning, historical building of the National Records of Scotland and turn Wikipedia’s “red links” (pages that don’t YET […]
A Conversation Between the OER Interns August 27, 2026 4:12 pm
Sanika Prakash Hi, I’m Sanika. I’m going into my fourth year of History of Art and English Literature and I’ve [...]
Open Educational Resources intern update August 7, 2026 10:58 am
With the first two months of my internship racing past in a flurry of Forrest Hill-brewed earl grey and sunny lunches in the meadows (alas, a rarer occurrence as we settle into a gloomy early August), this ‘mid-way’ blog post finds itself suddenly overdue. So far, I have published an entire set of OERs created by former GeoSciences outreach students, and am now recognised as a formal co-editor and contributor to the early stages of a new open textbook! Alongside regularly attending various other meetings and workshops, it is no wonder that the time seems to have flown by.
OER Channels
Edinburghs OERsOERs from across the University
TES Resources
Award winning open resources for school teachers.
Short Online Courses
Free short online courses.
Edinburgh Diamond
Open Access ebooks & journals.
Open Media Bank
Videos from our MOOCs & free short online courses.
Media Hopper Create
Creative Commons licensed videos.
Open Media Stock Footage
Open licensed media snippets for downloading & reuse.
Wikimedian in Residence
Videos from our Wikimedian in Residence.
3D Models
Open licensed models of heritage, geology & anatomy artefacts.
