For the Common Good
Everyday learning and teaching
Edinburgh at its best
Open educational resource initiatives
Edinburgh’s Treasures
Open online collections
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
Open for Good: Strategic support for OER at the University of Edinburgh (UKSG OER online seminar 2025) May 29, 2025 5:18 pm
Many thanks to Klara Finnimore and Vicky Drew from UKSG for inviting the University of Edinburgh's OER Service to speak on our experiences of sustainable strategic support for OER at their UKSG OER Online Seminar 2025. Below are the slides and transcript of the presentation.
Creating Edinburgh – Student created interdisciplinary OERs ’24/25 May 27, 2025 11:32 am
As the ’24/25 academic year comes to a close we review the excellent range of OER created by students across the University. We have four new fabulous resources to share created by undergraduate students as part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute course Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City.
OE Week 2025: Wikimedia in the curriculum March 5, 2025 10:32 am
As part of our Open Education Week celebrations this year, we’re highlighting the publication of the 2nd Edition of the [...]
Copyright and Cartoon Mice – Gen AI Images and the Public Domain February 24, 2025 9:53 am
With many image and media applications now integrating AI tools, it’s easier than ever to generate all kinds of eye-catching [...]
Costumes and Romance? February 14, 2025 10:42 am
I always enjoy a good dig around our digitised collections for different celebrations and days as there’s always something new [...]
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.
