Printing in a pandemic: the makers response to COVID
This paper, published in the Journal of European Association for Health Information and Libraries, by Mike Boyd, manager of the […]
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Thoughts on engaging with OERs: Rainbows all round
A guest blog post by Danielle Marlow, Education Development Coordinator, Edinburgh CRF Education Programme. Follow the Edinburgh CRF Education Programme […]
Read moreOpen Policy for Learning and Teaching
Earlier in September, my colleague Neil McCormick, Education Technology Policy Officer at LTW, and I took part in Jane Secker […]
Read moreFor the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER
This is a, belated, transcript of the talk I gave at the ALT Summer Summit 2020. Slides from this presentation are available here: For the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER. At the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO estimated that 1.57 billion learners in 191 countries worldwide had had […]
Read moreOpen licensed resources to help research
Our researchers are well catered to with fantastic open licensed resources created across the University to assist with various aspects […]
Read morePolicy, Practice and Permission
I’ve been thinking quite a lot about open policy this year, and I want to take a moment to try and put some of these thoughts into writing. Despite, or perhaps because of, the global pandemic, there have been some significant policy developments in the broad domain of open knowledge this year. In April, in […]
Read moreStart of term open licensed resources for our students
We have a bunch of great resources focused towards student that have been openly licensed for adaptation, re-use, and sharing. […]
Read moreOpen licensed resources to help teaching staff
In the lead up to the start of a new academic teaching year we wanted to pull together the excellent […]
Read moreFinal reflections on my Wikimedia Training Internship
Before starting my internship as the Wikimedia Training Intern at the University of Edinburgh, I did not know much about Wikipedia and its sister projects. I had obviously used Wikipedia; to settle arguments, as a springboard for research and as a helping hand in some particularly difficult pub quizzes. However, I had not given much …
Read moreIf it’s September, it must be Wiki Loves Monuments!
How is it September already?! Time always seems to fly at the end of summer but this year has been particularly weird as we’ve started to ease out of lockdown. July seemed to run on for ages, and then August disappeared in the blink of an eye! The best thing about September is that it […]
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