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 […]
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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.
Read moreOER22 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 […]
Read moreWikipedia, 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 […]
Read moreOpen 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 […]
Read moreDown 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 […]
Read more23 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 […]
Read moreIWD2022 & 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.
Read moreOpen 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.
Read moreLGBT+ History Month OERs
February is LGBT+ History Month in the UK each year with the overall aim to promote equality and diversity for […]
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