My first week as an open content curator intern -Alysha
Hello, I am Alysha, one of two Open Content Curator Interns for the summer of 2021! I have just finished […]
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My first week as an Open Content Curator Intern – Amy
Hi everyone, my name is Amy and I am one of the 2021 Open Content Curator Interns. I have just […]
Read moreBoris Johnson presented Joe Biden with my photo of Frederick Douglass to mark their first meeting
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 …
Read moreOpen Education on a Post-Pandemic Planet
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 moreOERXDomains21 Conference Reflection ~ Ana Reina
By 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 moreOERXDomains21 Conference Reflection ~ Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu
By 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 moreTeaching Matters OER Theme Roundup
Last week, the OER Service’s Teaching Matters blog theme, marking five years of Open Education Resources at the University of […]
Read moreOERxDomains21 – All Change
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 […]
Read moreEDUCAUSE Horizon Report case study
The 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report on Teaching and Learning was published yesterday and it includes a short case study on […]
Read moreThe Scale of Open: Re-purposing open resources for music education
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 […]
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