A Conversation Between the OER Interns
Sanika Prakash Hi, I’m Sanika. I am going into my fourth year of History of Art and English Literature and […]
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Open Educational Resources intern update
With the first two months of my internship racing past in a flurry of Forrest Hill-brewed earl grey and sunny lunches in the meadows (alas, a rarer occurrence as we settle into a gloomy early August), this ‘mid-way’ blog post finds itself suddenly overdue. So far, I have published an entire set of OERs created by former GeoSciences outreach students, and am now recognised as a formal co-editor and contributor to the early stages of a new open textbook! Alongside regularly attending various other meetings and workshops, it is no wonder that the time seems to have flown by.
Read moreUseless Interns and the Fragile Internet
The Open.Ed site has over 500 OER posts and about an equal number of blog posts, and I’ve been going through them manually in an audit, which has been time-consuming and repetitive.
When I’ve been asked about my job, many people have wondered why the whole process isn’t just automated. I’ve had a lot of questions on why I didn’t just use AI or code to scrape all of the data from WordPress and have believed that I had one of those ‘vanity internships’, where I get an experience for my LinkedIn but offer no real benefit for the company.
There are two very good reasons for this; copyright and the fragility of digital information.
Intern Reflection: Guess who’s back (back again)?
I’m Sanika, and last year I was the Open Textbook Creation Intern for seven months working on Open Educational Resources and process documents for the new textbook service. I am back for the summer and this year I’ve gone technical with it, and as the OER Web Migration intern, I’ve thrown myself into the complex technological programming code world of… Microsoft Excel. I may be working for an IT company but at my heart I am a word person, and Excel allows me to excel at collating words in a giant web audit.
Read moreCelebrating Edinburgh Medical School and Nursing Studies: Reflections from my first weeks as an intern
Guest post by Maya Field, Digital Heritage and Open Knowledge intern. Hello! I am Maya, this year’s Digital Heritage and Open Knowledge Intern at the University’s Information Services Group. My role this summer focuses on exploring the digital outputs that can be created to celebrate the heritage of both Edinburgh Medical School and Nursing Studies […]
Read moreMy first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern
Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week of this internship has thus far been largely characterised by extensive reading – which, as a French and English Literature student, I assure you that I am quite accustomed to!
Read moreOER Policy update – Copyright, AI and open licensing
University of Edinburgh teachers, learners and researchers have long been creating and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) to the world, allowing high-quality teaching and learning resources to be reused and re-purposed to benefit all. What happens though when Gen AI is used to help […]
Read moreFifth year 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 had an Award for “Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” to sit beside other available Edinburgh Awards for the last […]
Read moreToolkit for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching ebook published
Digital Skills Design and Training have published a new open education ebook on Edinburgh Diamond, the University Library’s publishing partner […]
Read moreMy Wikimedia journey so far
“I started my internship as an Assistant Wikimedian in Residence almost four months ago, and it has already been one of the most rewarding work experiences I have had.”
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