University of Edinburgh wins OE Global’s Open Policy Award
We’re delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has been awarded OE Global’s Open Policy Award as part of […]
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A new OER Policy for the University of Edinburgh
This post originally featured on the University of Edinburgh’s Teaching Matters blog. In September 2021, the University of Edinburgh’s Education Committee approved a new Open Education Resources (OER) Policy, which revises and updates our previous 2016 policy. Supported by the central OER Service, the policy encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs […]
Read moreFundamentals of Music Theory open textbook published
We’re incredibly proud to announce the publication of our Fundamentals of Music Theory open textbook, which is the first ebook to be hosted on Edinburgh Diamond, a new service provided by Edinburgh University Library that supports the publication of academic and student-led Open Access books and journals. This open textbook is the result of a project […]
Read moreClimateHub UK
COP26 is only two weeks away and there have been bundles of activities across the education sector to raise awareness and education around climate and environment. One of these has been the creation of Climate Hub UK by the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) with funding from the Scottish Government.
Read moreOEGlobal Open Curation Award
We are incredibly proud to receive the 2021 OEGlobal Awards for Excellence Open Curation Award for our collection of high quality student made OER on the TES platform.
Since 2015, the University of Edinburgh’s Open Education Resource (OER) Service has collaborated with Geoscience’s Outreach (GO) course, where students create educational projects with community clients, to curate an exceptional collection of high quality OERs into an accessible collection on the TES platform.
Read moreNew University of Edinburgh OER Policy approved
The OER Service is immensely proud to announce the launch of the University’s new OER Policy, which was approved by […]
Read morePassing the flame with OER
One of the most satisfying things about working in OER is how often the answer to an enquiry we receive […]
Read moreThe Future of Learning and Teaching in HE in the Post Pandemic World
I’ll be part of two universities’ festivals of learning and digital this week. At Digital Week 13-17 Settembre 2021 at Università degli Studi di Padova. I’ll speak about policies and practices of Open Education at University of Edinburgh. At University of Durham Festival of Teaching and Learning 2021 13th-17th September. I’ll speak about ‘The Future …
Read moreTeaching Matters: Five OER Inspirations
This month’s Teaching Matters Newsletter highlights five inspirations from the recent OER theme Open for Good: Five Years of Open Education […]
Read moreAlysha’s blog on her 2021 internship experience
Over almost the last three months in this summer of 2021 I’ve had the joy of being an Open Content Curator Intern. This has been an incredible experience for me and I feel really privileged to have any job right now, let alone one that I enjoy so much, with a great team.
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