The Open Education Service and our wider Educational Engagement and Design Team have been guest posting over on Campus. Campus […]
Blog Posts
About the HCP-Med Integrity Channel
Earlier this year we had a conversation with Dr Rupsha Fraser, part of the core team for HCP-Med, about the […]
At the End of Summer, at the End of the Open Content Curator Internship
It is a cliché, but it always feels unbelievably fast how the time with a long daytime passes by. Now […]
OER Digital Skills Semester 1
We have a new format for our Digital Skills workshops and information sessions this semester. Quick Start Using feedback from […]
End of the Open Content Curation Internship
I regret to say that my internship is now coming to an end. It is incredibly bitter-sweet, and I am […]
Starting the “Their Finest Hour” Internship
In July 2022, the University of Oxford launched a digital preservation project; to collate as many World War Two stories […]
Two Months after starting the Internship
Hello again! It is hard to imagine that it’s almost two full months since I started my first-ever internship, but […]
An Update on the Open Content Curator Internship
Here we are, past the halfway point. Time really does fly! It’s been weird, work has very quickly become a […]
Generative AI – Ethics all the way down
How to respond to the affordances and challenges of generative AI is a pressing issue that many learning technologists and open education practitioners are grappling with right now and I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about the interface between …
First Week as an Open Content Curation Intern
Hello, My name is August, and I have now joined Mayu as the other Open Content Curator Intern you will […]
Starting the Open Content Curator Internship!
Hello! I am Mayu, one of two Open Content Curator Interns working for the OER Service at the University of […]
Tower Block UK Archive uploaded to Edinburgh DataShare
By Stefano Bordoni, Research Data Support Assistant. The Research Data Support team in Library and University Collections has just completed […]
digital badgers
As previously teased, I am a delighted to say we are launching a 3-year pilot of BadgEd, a new Open Digital Badge service, so that students and staff can earn their stripes and show off their achievements in black and white! It’s taken me a while to get this in place. I am indebted to …
Open Scotland @10 Plenary Panel synthesis & outputs
This summary of the Open Scotland @10 plenary panel at OER23 by Lorna M. Campbell was originally published at OpenWorld blog. To mark 10 years of the Open Scotland initiative, Joe Wilson and I ran two events as part of the OER23 Conference at UHI in Inverness, which provided an opportunity for members of the education community to reflect […]
Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award
The Online Course Production Service, with support from the OER Service, has received a Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award […]
OER23 Conference: Imagining hopeful futures
I’m a bit late with this OER23 reflection, it’s taken me a couple of weeks to catch up with myself and to let some of the ideas generated by the conference percolate. It was fabulous to see the OER Conference returning to Scotland for the fist time since we hosted it at the University of […]
“Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” – the Edinburgh Award
We know that many students are involved in activities alongside their studies such as volunteering, part-time work, and getting involved in the University community. To help these activities to stand out from the crowd, our University has a new Award for “Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” to sit beside other available Edinburgh Awards– the Edinburgh Award […]
Recovering Histories – Improving Equality and Diversity Online
Three students co-authored an application to take part in a Student Experience Grant project over a 14-week time period, learning how to edit Wikipedia and how to fill in diversity gaps on the website: Eleanor– PhD Student researching LGBTQ+ History. Sian – PhD student researching Black History. Kirsty – Undergraduate student researching Gender History. Each […]
100 MOOCs more
University of Edinburgh has been publishing MOOCs as open educational resources for 10 years. Huge thanks go to all the academic teams who choose this route to share the knowledge they have created with learners all over the world.
OER23 Conference: Advancing open education practices
This year the OER Conference will be returning to Scotland for the first time since it was hosted by the […]
Open for Good: 10 years of open course development at the University of Edinburgh
As part of Open Education Week, the global celebration of open education worldwide, EDE hosted a public webinar Open for Good: 10 years of open course development at the University of Edinburgh, which shares the story of how the we developed an open co…
Creating Edinburgh: The Interdisciplinary City
In this guest blog post, Dr David Overend, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at Moray House School of Education and Sport, […]
Introducing the University of Edinburgh’s Stock Media Footage
In this guest post, Media Production Intern Qiaojun Yan introduces the University’s Open Media Stock Footage collection on Media Hopper […]
Open Education Week 2023
Open Education Week (OE Week) is an annual celebration hosted by Open Education Global that provides an opportunity for actively […]
Summer Internships – Come and work with us!
We have an exciting opportunity for two student interns to come and work with the OER Service for three months […]
Colouring books hosted on Edinburgh Diamond service
Our colouring books ‘We have great stuff’ volumes one and two are now available on Edinburgh Diamond, the University of Edinburgh Library’s digital service for hosting Diamond open source books and journals.
ENCORE+ Interview on OER and credentialing
Towards the end of last year OER Service manager Lorna M. Campbell was interviewed by Dai Griffiths of the European […]
OER Service 2022 Roundup
It’s been another busy year for the OER Service! As well as celebrating over 5 years of institutional support for […]
Open Media Bank: Legacy MOOC Project
The Instructional Design Team have just completed a project with the OER (Open Educational Resources) Service which, as all good projects do, started with a mysterious old dusty spreadsheet. It was a record of legacy MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)…
Open Research Support at Russell Group Universities
As part of my work as Research Data Steward, I was asked by our Open Research Co-ordinator to investigate the …Continue reading →
Open to the World: Celebrating 20 years of Creative Commons licences
Creative Commons, the international organisation dedicated to sharing knowledge and creativity, celebrates 20 years of Creative Commons licences. The organisation […]
Learning Technology Community: OER Service Takeover
Next Monday 31 October the OER Service is looking forward to taking over the University of Edinburgh’s Learning Technology Community […]
OfS review of Blended Learning
In March 2002 the Office for Students announced their plan to review blended learning provision in English universities. I was delighted to be invited to be part of the expert panel doing the review. The OfS currently hold no sway in Scotland, but they shape the ways in which some of the universities in England …
“An epoch in history” – Charles Lyell in Nova Scotia 1842
We are delighted to welcome Tim Fedak – a Curator and Palaeontologist based at Nova Scotia Museum – to our …Continue reading →
Ada Lovelace Day 2022
As every year, I gathered colleagues, friends and students to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day again. There was story on the BBC that this year might be the end for ALD, but I am not convinced. There is still much work to be done. “According to data published by STEM Women – a company which organises networking …
Open Textbooks and OER Webinar
Last week Lorna Campbell, OER Service Manager, and Dhara Snowden, Textbook Programme Manager at UCL Press, joined Jane Secker and […]
ALTC 2022 – Reconnecting
Earlier this month the annual ALT Conference returned as an in-person event for the first time since the pandemic. Around 400 participants joined the hybrid conference at the University of Manchester, for both an in-person and online programme. For many delegates it was their first in-person conference since the Before Times and I think it’s […]
OEG Voices Podcasts
Earlier this summer Lorna Campbell and Charlie Farley joined Alan Levine from Open Education Global for the OEG Voices podcast […]
100,000 downloads of award-winning OERs from TES Resources
As part of our mission and vision to share the knowledge we discover with our graduates, and make the world […]
digital leadership in education: a feminist perspective
I am delighted that a chapter I wrote, based on my research has now been published in the Handbook of Digital Higher Education
Chapter 28: The importance of diversity and digital leadership in education: a feminist perspective from higher education ht…
End of Open Content Internship
One of the aspects that had initially attracted me to the role was the importance of openly licensed, accessible resources […]
Open Content Internship – Last Week!
Looking back at my first blog post, it doesn’t feel like it’s been nearly three months at all! I applied […]
Researching Social Media Algorithms: Dangerous Data
How come Twitter shows you the cutest cat video EVER each time you log in? How much does Facebook make […]
Collaborating and Developing the SatSchool OERs
This blog post is a bit different, as it is co-written by both myself (Molly) and Alyssa. We both worked […]
Edinburgh Open Research Conference Proceedings
One of the ambitions for the EOR conference held in March, 2022, when we first started planning it was to …Continue reading →
OER for Disability Pride Month
During Disability Pride Month, I chose to develop my own resource and chose to work with the AS and Neurodiversity […]
A midpoint reflection: OERs, EDI in tech, internship ideas
I was slightly alarmed when Charlie asked us to write a halfway point blog for the internship, because it still […]
Open Content Intern for ISG: how can OERs help digital spaces?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog is cross-posted from the ISG Student Employee Blog. Programme of Study and Year: MA Fine Art, Year […]
Open Content Internship – Halfway Point!
Hi! I’m writing as I am half-way through the Open Content Internship. It doesn’t feel like it’s been nearly six […]
Open for Good – New brochures from the OER and Online Course Production Services
We’re delighted to announce the publication of two new brochures from the OER Service and the Online Course Production Service, […]
Fundamentals of Music Theory: Co-creating sustainable open textbooks for music education
University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference 2022 presentation by Lorna M. Campbell, Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu, Ana Reina Garcia, Nikki Moran and Rebecca Wojturska. Fundamentals of Music Theory: Co-creating sustainable open textbooks for music…
The First Week of the Open Content Internship!
Hello, I am Molly – one of the two Open Content Curator Interns for Summer 2022! I’ve just finished my […]
Starting an Open Content Curator Internship
Hi! I’m Alyssa, one of two Open Content Curator Interns at the Learning Teaching and Web Directorate of the ISG this summer. I am writing this as our first week of meeting new people, training and learning finishes up.
OER22 In Person & Online
Last week I was at the OER22 Conference, and I was actually at the conference because for the first time in two years the OER Conference was in person and online. OER22 was a hybrid conference in every sense of the word; the first day took place in London, the second day featured recorded online […]
Wikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower
This was a talk presented at the LILAC 2022 Information Literacy Conference held at Manchester Metropolitan University on 11-13 April 2022. The slides will be uploaded shortly. 0) Intro slide: Video of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Wikipedia page being edited. Anyone can click “Edit” on any page on Wikipedia to improve its open-licensed information with verifiable […]
Open Education and OER in the Curriculum
Principles of Open Education and OER This blog post was originally posted on the Curriculum Transformation Hub. The principles of […]
Down the rabbit hole with Wikipedia – LILAC 2022
I asked LILAC Information Literacy Conference 2022 delegates what their favourite Wikipedia pages were and here’s what they answered: Boris Johnson (It’s not flattering) The Dyatlov Pass incident Dolly Parton Cellar door High five Mary Shelley Loch_Ness_Monster The Sopranos List of Manufacturing processes Disambiguation (disambiguation) List of The Simpsons guest stars Defenestrations of Prague Marxist […]
23 Things course wins the MERLOT Instructional and Design Technology Classics Award for 2022
At this year’s OLC Innovate conference, Stephanie (Charlie) Farley was awarded the MERLOT Instructional and Design Technology Classics award for […]
IWD2022 & OERs by Fabulous Women
Celebrating International Women’s Day in 2022 we want to highlight some of the excellent OERs shared with us by a range of fabulous women teaching, supporting, and learning with us here at The University of Edinburgh.
Open Education Week 2022
An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) March 7-11th is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide. This year we’re running two information events. The first is a webinar ‘Open to the World’ about our open course development. The webinar is free and open for anyone within or outwith the university to attend! The second is an information session for internal University of Edinburgh staff on how open education is being used in curriculum across the university to the benefit of staff and students.
LGBT+ History Month OERs
February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK each year with the overall aim to promote equality and diversity for […]
Sustainable Futures & Live at COP26
Videos from the two short free online courses on Learning for Sustainable futures and Live at COP26 are now open licensed and available for anyone to view, use, and re-use under Creative Commons licences.
The Penguin and the Piper: Telling a different story
Today is Word Penguin Day so I took the opportunity to share some of my all time favourite open licensed […]
Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project Final Report
This is the final report of the Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project. Introduction Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education was a Student Experience Grant funded research and development project that ran from February to July 2021. The project was managed by the OER Service based in Learning, Teaching and Web Services, […]
