Climate Solutions: Mexico (English)
We are in a climate emergency. The actions we all choose to take over the next decade will decide whether […]
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Fundamentals 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 […]
Read moreCourse Design OERs
As the University is currently engaging in The Curriculum Transformation Programme, a major and long-term initiative to construct a curriculum […]
Read moreRe-use, OER, & 23 Things
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.
Read moreData Ethics, AI and Responsible Innovation
Our future is here and it relies on data. Medical robots, smart homes and cities, predictive policing, artificial intelligences – […]
Read moreLaunch of new ’23 Things for Digital Knowledge’ course!
This week we’re launching a new version of the award winning 23 Things for Digital Knowledge course! The new updated […]
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