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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
Wikimedia in Education 2nd Edition January 15, 2025 2:24 pm
By Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence, University of Edinburgh. To coincide with Wikipedia’s 24th Birthday, seven new case studies have [...]
Sustainable Schools – An IDL STEM design challenge January 14, 2025 5:04 pm
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
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
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 […]
October 23, 2024 7:01 pm
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
Building on last year Open Access Week 2024‘s theme is again focusing on “Community over Commercialisation” and prioritising approaches to [...]
October 22, 2024 12:52 pm
Building on last year Open Access Week 2024‘s theme is again focusing on “Community over Commercialisation” and prioritising approaches to [...]
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.
