A picture I shared on Wikimedia has been given by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a gift to President Joe Biden. Just goes to show that serendipitous things happen when you share openly. President Biden and Dr Biden are visiting the UK this week. In preparation for the visit the Downing Street offices began …
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I gave a keynote presentation at Open Apereo conference. Here’s the recording https://youtu.be/D7hL9i-NdyM Here’s the blurb: Open Education on a Post-Pandemic Planet As we try to predict what the future may hold there are a few things from the Before Times that we still know to be true: Open educational resources, open source software and …
Read moreBy Ana Reina. Two weeks ago, our team had the chance to participate in the OERxDomains Conference organized by the Association of Learning Technology. Lorna, Kari, Ifeanyichukwu and I delivered a short presentation about our project and the conclusions we had achieved so far working with OER resources transforming pre-existent content into a textbook. Besides […]
Read moreBy Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu Attending the two days OERxDomains 2021 conference was a very insightful experience through which my co-interns and I were able to present about the ongoing music theory e-textbook project alongside Lorna Campbell. Attending other seminars by speakers from around the world further opened up my mind towards understanding OER in a broader perspective and this blog will focus on discussing about three presentations that I find fascinating and relatable to the ongoing project […]
Read moreLast week, the OER Service’s Teaching Matters blog theme, marking five years of Open Education Resources at the University of […]
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The OER Conference is always one of the highlights of the year for me. I’ve been privileged to attend every single one since conference launched in 2010 and it’s been interesting to see how the event has changed as open education has evolved over the last 11 years. My keynote at the 2018 conference focused […]
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The 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report on Teaching and Learning was published yesterday and it includes a short case study on […]
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This is the transcript of a talk written by Lorna M. Campbell and Nikki Moran, presented at the OERxDomains21 Conference by Lorna M. Campbell, Kari Ding, Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu and Ana Reina Garcia. Slide are available from Slideshare: The Scale of Open Introduction This talk will reflect on how the University of Edinburgh’s strategic commitment to […]
Read moreAfter doing our research on the publishers that worked with open books, we got an idea of what we were aiming to have in our textbook and how we wanted it to be. To become more accessible and achieve wider public, we agreed that the textbook should be published in at least three main formats: HTML, EPUB […]
Read moreGitHub is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. GitHub pages is a subsidiary of GitHub which presents its content in form of a website. Although it is designed to be used by users with some experience of coding, this has been simplified using Jekyll. Jekyll is an additional extension which transforms plain text into codes in form of a static […]
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