2020 – The year that open came into its own
2020 marks 5 years of the OER Service at the University of Edinburgh. The service was launched in 2015 in […]
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Introducing the IDL Network
A guest blog post by the IDL Network. This month saw the launch of the IDL Network, an interdisciplinary learning […]
Read moreOpen Education Policies: Guidelines for Co-Creation
Today saw the publication of an important and very timely resource for open educators and policy makers: Open Education Policies: Guidelines for Co-Creation by Javiera Atenas, Leo Havemann, Jan Neumann and Cristina Stefanelli. The aim of the guidelines is to: “support institutions and governments in the development of open education policies promoting the adoption of […]
Read moreOpen Practice in Practice
Last week I had the pleasure of running a workshop on open practice with Catherine Cronin as part of City University of London’s online MSc in Digital Literacies and Open Practice, run by the fabulous Jane Secker. Both Catherine and I have run guest webinars for this course for the last two years, so this […]
Read morePrinting in a pandemic: the makers response to COVID
This paper, published in the Journal of European Association for Health Information and Libraries, by Mike Boyd, manager of the […]
Read moreThoughts on engaging with OERs: Rainbows all round
A guest blog post by Danielle Marlow, Education Development Coordinator, Edinburgh CRF Education Programme. Follow the Edinburgh CRF Education Programme […]
Read moreAda Lovelace Day: Dr Isabel Gal
This year for Ada Lovelace day, I wrote a new Wikipedia page about Dr Isabel Gal, a Hungarian paediatrician and Holocaust Survivor who, in 1967, was responsible for establishing a link between use of the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos and severe congenital birth defects. I came across Gal quite by chance via the @OnThisDayShe twitter […]
Read moreOpen Policy for Learning and Teaching
Earlier in September, my colleague Neil McCormick, Education Technology Policy Officer at LTW, and I took part in Jane Secker […]
Read moreColours and Wellbeing – Initial Thoughts on the Next Volume of We Have Great Stuff Colour Books
Reading Time: 3 minutes First, I sincerely hope you are well and somehow coping in these uncertain times. Second, a very warm welcome to the start of what will hopefully become the We Have Great Stuff – Volume 3 colour book. Wherever you are thank you for tuning in here and taking the time to acquaint yourself with this […]
Read moreFor the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER
This is a belated transcript of the talk I gave at the ALT Summer Summit 2020. Slides from this presentation are available here: For the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER. At the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNES…
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