Thoughts 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 […]
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Ada 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…
Read moreScotland Loves Monuments 2020
Get involved in Wiki Loves Monuments! Wiki Loves Monuments is an international photo competition which takes part throughout the month of September every year, and is supported by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. You can see historic locations near you that are missing an image using our handy interactive map (red pins are locations without an …
Read moreOpen licensed resources to help research
Our researchers are well catered to with fantastic open licensed resources created across the University to assist with various aspects […]
Read morePolicy, Practice and Permission
I’ve been thinking quite a lot about open policy this year, and I want to take a moment to try and put some of these thoughts into writing. Despite, or perhaps because of, the global pandemic, there have been some significant policy developments in the broad domain of open knowledge this year. In April, in […]
Read moreStart of term open licensed resources for our students
We have a bunch of great resources focused towards student that have been openly licensed for adaptation, re-use, and sharing. […]
Read moreOpen licensed resources to help teaching staff
In the lead up to the start of a new academic teaching year we wanted to pull together the excellent […]
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