Open.Ed

The University of Edinburgh Open Educational Resources

University of Edinburgh Logo
  • Home
  • About
  • OER Channels
  • Edinburgh’s OERs
  • How To Guides
  • Blog
  • Events
  • Newsletter
  • Contact Us

Category: 03 – Edinburgh’s Treasures

Open online collections.

Meeting Backgrounds from the Collection

8th June 2020 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

A selection of images have been collected and made available as background images for remote video conferencing and collaboration tools […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • EdinburghOER
  • Information Services Group

Animal Crossing University Collections Art

28th May 2020 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Three paintings hung on wall (bird, flower, butterfly) and easel on floor (owl).

Our Interactive Content manager Stewart Cromar has written an excellent guide on how players of the life simulation game Animal […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • EdinburghOER
  • Information Services Group

Survey of Scottish Witchcraft Visualisations

14th October 2019 Lorna M Campbell
Witches place of residence map

A unique series of interactive visualisations has been created by Equate Scotland student intern Emma Carroll, and Wikimedian in Residence […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Eric Lucey Film Collection

23rd May 2018 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Pink flower captured on old grainy film.

The Eric Lucey film collection in The University of Edinburgh Archives Collection have been digitised and made openly available and […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • EdinburghOER
  • Information Services Group

3D Gandharan Sculptures

12th December 2016 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Screenshot of Gandarahan sculptures on Sketchfab

Three 3D models of Gandharan sculptures have been created from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections (CRC), and […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • Information Services Group

Digitised Shakespeare

6th June 2016 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Front page of the 1599 Romeo and Juliet

The library’s rich holdings of early English drama include the majority of editions of William Shakespeare published before 1660, mainly […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Information Services Group

Open Books

29th February 2016 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
OpenBooks text overlaid a bookshelf

This collection of Open Books is compiled from readers’ orders for scans, principally in black and white and some in […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • Information Services Group

Our History

19th November 2015 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
The signature of Bishop Robert Reid (1506-82), Laing Charter 426, Laing Collection, University of Edinburgh

A growing online history of the University of Edinburgh and its people. Using the same methodology as Wikipedia, this project both […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • EdinburghOER
  • Other Collections

Centre for Research Collections Flickr

18th November 2015 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
CRC Flickr OER

Encompassing everything from Incunabula and Oriental Manuscripts to Matriculation records and even the notes regarding the creation of the famous […]

Read more
  • 03 - Edinburgh’s Treasures
  • EdinburghOER

Upcoming Events

  1. Academic Blogging: Blogging to build your professional profile

    January 20 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  2. Copyright, Licensing, and Open Materials for Hybrid Teaching

    January 21 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  3. Creative Commons Quick Start: A short introduction to using CC licences

    February 3 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
  4. OER and Open Education

    February 10 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

View All Events

Tags

Ada Lovelace advent art biology blogging board game jam copyright creative commons data data and analysis digital futures digital literacy digital skills education geography geoscience health healthcare higher education history interactive content internship lgbt licensing mathematics medicine OER OERoftheMonth OEWeek OpenEdFeed open practice openunwrapped PgCert Academic Practice physics playful learning policy rdsvs scotland sound university of edinburgh video wikimedia wikipedia workshop youtube

Categories

  • 01 – For the Common Good (139)
  • 02 – Edinburgh at its best (38)
  • 03 – Edinburgh’s Treasures (9)
  • Blog (383)
  • EdinburghOER (189)
    • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (71)
    • College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (36)
    • College of Science and Engineering (65)
    • Information Services Group (56)
    • Other Collections (11)
  • Interdisciplinary (15)
  • Multidisciplinary (3)
  • Open Ed syndicated (319)
  • Primary and Secondary (40)
    • Advanced Higher (5)
    • Early Level (1)
    • First Level (6)
    • Fourth level (11)
    • Higher (5)
    • National 5 (8)
    • Second Level (24)
    • Third Level (14)
  • Uncategorised (13)
  • University early levels (5)

Twitter @OpenEdEdinburgh

Edinburgh Univ OERs
Edinburgh Univ OERs @OpenEdEdinburgh

Janet Anne Galloway (1841–1909) was an advocate for higher education for women in Scotland, supporter of the Glasgow Association for the Higher Education of Women and secretary of Queen Margaret College.
https://t.co/Aa0Yq0WCHp

#Wikipedia20 #OER #femedtech
View on Twitter
0
0
Edinburgh Univ OERs
Edinburgh Univ OERs @OpenEdEdinburgh

Women's suffrage in Scotland - this page outlines the long and gruelling campaign that went on for 86 years before the Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced, which provided a few women with the right to vote. https://t.co/XCaEl2XNNi #Wikipedia20 #OER #Suffragettes
View on Twitter
0
0
Edinburgh Univ OERs
Edinburgh Univ OERs @OpenEdEdinburgh

Lilias Adie (c. 1640 – 1704) was a Scottish woman from Fife, who was accused of practising witchcraft but died in prison before sentence was passed. Her grave is the only known one in Scotland of an accused witch.
https://t.co/ocuVsK4ikf
#Wikipedia20 #witches #OER
View on Twitter
0
1
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy statement
  • Cookies
  • Website accessibility
Log in
Creative Commons Licence
Except where otherwise stated, this work by University of Edinburgh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Site published by the Interactive Content Team, Information Services, The University of Edinburgh.
University of Edinburgh Logo