Sustainable Development Goals

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

Wikimedia in Education Wikimedia in Education 2nd Edition
January 15, 2025 2:24 pm by Ewan McAndrew
By Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh. To coincide with Wikipedia’s 24th Birthday, seven new case studies have [...]
The south facing Earthship is built into the side of a hill to take advantage of the thermal properties of the ground - slow to warm up; slow to cool down. Sustainable Schools – An IDL STEM design challenge
January 14, 2025 5:04 pm by Lorna M Campbell
We’re delighted that our OER “Sustainable Schools – An IDL STEM design challenge” has been chosen this month to feature [...]
Draft Dubai Declaration on OER
November 27, 2024 6:59 pm by Lorna M Campbell
The 3rd UNESCO World OER Congress took place in Dubai last week.  The previous two congresses, held in Paris in [...]
Open Education and AI: Proselytisers, prophets and poets.
October 23, 2024 7:01 pm by OpenEdFeed – Open World
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 […]
Open Access Week 2024: Open Scholarship
October 22, 2024 12:52 pm by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Building on last year Open Access Week 2024‘s theme is again focusing on “Community over Commercialisation” and prioritising approaches to [...]

OER Channels

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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.