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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Read moreSustainable 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.
Read moreThe 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 […]
Read moreOpen 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, […]
Read moreOEGlobal Open Student Award – Hannah Rothmann
Wikipdia student intern (2020) Hannah Rothmann has been awarded the 2021 OEGlobal Awards for Excellence Open Student Award for her […]
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