OER as an Exemplar of Excellence
Over the last year the University has undertaken a project to review processes and incentives for the recognition, reward and […]
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Open educational practice: creating Open Educational Resources as part of a course assignment
A guest blog post by Celeste McLaughlin, Head of Academic Development for Digital Education, Institute for Academic Development. This post […]
Read moreProfessional Blogging: Acknowledging social media harassment
As part of the University of Edinburgh’s Academic Blogging Service, I’ve been teaching a workshop on Blogging to Build your Professional Profile. This workshop has run once a month since September last year and I’ve also presented tailored versions of it to various groups around the University, most recently to student interns who are working […]
Read moreIcepops Conference 2019 – Learning how to play the game
Ok, confession time; I’m useless at playing games. Any kind of games – card games, board games, computer games, strategy games, discovery games, competitive games, for some reason they just don’t hold my attention. I’m not sure why that is, I just don’t seem to have that “hook” that engages people with game play. Although […]
Read moreBalance for Better – Teaching Matters
Wikimedian in Residence @emcandre highlights how staff & students are engaging with Wikipedia to address the diversity of editors & content shared online. “The information that is on Wikipedia spreads across the internet. What is right or wrong or missing on Wikipedia affects the entire internet.” (Wadewitz, 2014) Wikipedia, the free, online, encyclopaedia is building …
Read moreFrom Open Source to Open Education
For the past three weeks I’ve been working as one of two Open Content Curator Interns, employed over the summer […]
Read moreSharing is Caring
My name is Ana – I am a third year mathematics student and I am just about to finish my third week working […]
Read moreRemembering Marion
Like many colleagues, I was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Marion Kelt earlier this week. Marion was Research and Open Access Librarian at Glasgow Caledonian University Library, but more than that, she was a weel kent, well respected and well liked member of the open education community. Marion was nothing if not […]
Read moreWhat does my open practice look like?
I was recently asked to write a few words to define my own open practice. That seems like the sort of thing I should do openly, so here goes… “I’ll be making the point that open education practice is highly variable and contextual and I … Continue reading What does my open practice look like?
Read moreOn the importance of attribution in metadata
Anyone who has ever worked in developing or implementing metadata specifications will know that they’re not exactly a bundle of laughs, so metadata jokes are a rare and precious thing (cf Winston Jingo and Patrice Roux-the-Day.) So when I came across this image in 2016, I had to retweet it for the poor souls who […]
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