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R@R(D)SVS: Open Textbook Interview

5th March 2024 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

Illustration of a rat and text: RatR(D)SVS

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.

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Edinburgh Diamond: Open Textbook Interview

4th March 2024 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

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.

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Open Textbook Interview Series for OE Week 2024

29th February 2024 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

Sketch of an open book with the words 'Open Text Books' and arrow spreading out to figures of people reading and using tech

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.

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Course Design OERs

26th February 2024 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

illustration of a laptop screen, tablet screen, and cog wheels.

As the University is currently engaging in The Curriculum Transformation Programme, a major and long-term initiative to construct a curriculum […]

Re-use, OER, & 23 Things

20th February 2024 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The University of Edinburgh’s 23 Things for Digital Knowledge is a self-directed course aimed towards students new to The University of Edinburgh to introduce and refresh the range of digital tools, services, software, support, and knowledge available. What you may not know is that for both iterations of the course, content has been created by re-using open licensed content from the University of Edinburgh and itself is open licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). In fact we actively encourage you to take our Digital Knowledge course and adapt it for your own purposes.