Python and R Resources for Scottish Teachers
STEM resources for teachers in Scotland using GLOW. This project is part of the STEM grant from Education Scotland for […]
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Birds of Midlothian: Open Textbook Interview
In our fifth and final Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interview, Charlie Farley talks to Mayu Ishimoto, an Architectural History and Heritage student who worked as an Open Content Curator intern with the OER Service over the summer of 2023. Mayu now works one day a week as an intern with the OER Service, and published the open textbook Birds of Midlothian as one of her summer projects.
Read moreIntroduction to Bioimage Analysis: Open Textbook Interview
In the fourth of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley talks to Dr Peter Bankhead, Reader in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at The University of Edinburgh. Creator of digital imaging open-source software, QuPath, which has been downloaded close to half a million times, cited in about 3,000 academic articles, and is used all over the world, both in academia and industry. Dr Bankhead has published his open textbook Introduction to Bioimage Analysis using GitHub and Jupyter Books.
Read moreClimate Solutions: Mexico (Spanish)
Aunque el cambio climático afecta a todo el planeta, sus impactos varían significativamente de un país a otro. En este […]
Read moreClimate Solutions: Mexico (English)
We are in a climate emergency. The actions we all choose to take over the next decade will decide whether […]
Read moreFundamentals of Music Theory: Open E-Textbook Interview
In the third of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley talks to Dr Nikki Moran, Senior Lecturer in Music at the ECA. Niki is lead author and presenter of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Fundamentals of Music Theory, engaging 300000 active learners and recruiting around 500 new students per week. Fundamentals of Music Theory was the first open e-textbook published on Edinburgh Diamond as part of a pilot project in collaboration with the OER Service.
Read moreR@R(D)SVS: Open Textbook Interview
In the second of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley talks to Dr Jill Mackay, Senior Lecturer (Veterinary Medical Education) at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Dr Mackay is a proponent of open science, and particularly exploring how education research can adopt open science practices. She has created and published multiple OER, including the open textbook R@R(D)SVS designed to help staff and students get to grips with with R programming.
Read moreEdinburgh Diamond: Open Textbook Interview
To celebrate Open Education Week 2024, Charlie Farley has interviewed staff across the University on their experiences making and using Open Textbooks. In this post, she talks to Rebecca Wojturska about Edinburgh Diamond, the University’s Open Publishing Service.
Read moreOpen Textbook Interview Series for OE Week 2024
March 4th-8th marks Open Education Week 2024, an annual celebration and opportunity for those working in Open Education to actively share their achievements and learn about what others are achieving worldwide. This year we’re celebrating Open Education Week by publishing a series of interviews with staff and students across the University who have created and published open textbooks. Open textbooks are books that have been made accessible online free of cost and are also openly licensed to allow free modifications, use, and sharing.
Read moreBirds of Midlothian Open Textbook
This open textbook was created to inform the reader about the food and habitat requirements of the most common bird […]
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