We’re huge fans of the Festival of Creative Learning as you can see by the number of events we’re running again this year. Have a look and sign yourself up to come along and have some fun!
Read moreLast week I taught the third run of our Blogging to Build your Professional Profile workshop and also had the pleasure of joining a lunchtime call with colleagues from ALT to talk about different approaches to team blogging. Something that struck me is that whenever I talk about blogging there are a number of issues […]
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We’re looking for 2 Open Content Curator Interns to join us over the summer months. Work with the brilliant Open.Ed team, improve your digital skills, and contribute educational resources to the global commons!
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Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of #ImmodestWomen By Siobhan O’Connor, Alice White, Sara Thomas and Ewan McAndrew. Wikipedia, the free, online, multilingual encyclopaedia is building the largest open knowledge resource in human history. Now aged eighteen years old, its English language version receives over 500 million views per month, …
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Wikipedia turns 18 today! Hurray! I hope it doesn’t go out and get completely hammered and wake up in the morning with no memory of how it got home. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Wikimedia UK has asked us all to tell them why we value Wikipedia. What does Wikipedia mean to you? The power […]
Read moreBefore Christmas by lovely former colleague R. John Robertson invited me to answer some questions about digital literacy for a course on Digital Literacy and Life that he’s teaching with Cindy Strong at Seattle Pacific University. I’m late with these responses as usual, but it was a really interesting and thought provoking exercise because I’ve never […]
Read moreA couple of weeks ago I gave a webinar as part of Jane Secker’s new online course on Digital Literacies and Open Practice at City, University of London. The lecture was called Open for all? Engaging with open education practice at the personal and institutional level and the recording is available here (Adobe Connect). The webinar provided an […]
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This post previously appeared on the University of Edinburgh’s Teaching Matters blog. Can I use copyright materials in my lectures? What about film clips? What if my lecture is recorded? How can I make sure I won’t get into trouble? Lorna Campbell and Charlie Farley, from the Educational Design and Engagement team in Learning, Teaching and […]
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Last month the University of Edinburgh rolled out a new centrally supported Academic Blogging Service, which provides staff and students with a range of different blogs to support professional development and learning, teaching and research activities. The service has already been hugely successful, with almost 200 new blogs created in the last four weeks. My […]
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Inspired by a conversation with Lauren today, and some recent announcements, I am updating our timeline of learning technology developments at University of Edinburgh. Are there other things I should include? 2002? WebCT VLE on campus 20003 – ERA- Open access repository in the library September 2005, Edinburgh Law School launched its first online distance …
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