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February OER of the Month – Bioinformatics & Raspberry Pi

1st March 2018 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The 4273π Bioinformatics using Raspberry Pi project is a crowd pleaser, and one of the top viewed OERs across the Open.Ed […]

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Changing Perspectives on OER

22nd February 2018 OpenEdFeed – Open World

In case you missed it, this blog post outlining my OER18 keynote appeared on the conference website last week. Being invited to keynote is always a privilege, but I was particularly honoured to be asked to present at this year’s OER18 Conference in Bristol, not least because I’ll be following in the footsteps of the […]

Internship – Come and work with us!

15th February 2018 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

Black woman sitting in beautiful office space in front of a laptop

We’re looking for an Open Content Curator Intern 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! The position is available to ‘2nd year up-to penultimate year’ undergraduate students from the University of Edinburgh.

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January OER of the Month – Approaching Religion Through Story

29th January 2018 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

Detail of miniature from scroll relating the Mahabharata. Shows Krishna, armed with a bow and arrow, riding a chariot, aiming at another chariot which is following it.

I wanted to start with Approaching Religion Through Story, a series of delightful stories from Buddhist traditions, Hindu traditions, and Christian Parables. I’m personally fond of this set of OER, not least because the tale of the Monkey King was a childhood favourite of mine, and I was incredibly pleased to see the addition of Hindu stories since my last visit to the website, and that stories from Islamic traditions are also in development!

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From Scotland to Morocco

23rd January 2018 OpenEdFeed – Open World

One of the great things about openness is that when you release something under open licence, you never quite know who’s going to pick it up and what’s going to happen to it. I know this is one of the things that can make some colleagues apprehensive about using open licences but to my mind […]

Open Education and OER – A guide and call to action for policy makers

8th January 2018 OpenEdFeed – Open World

Towards the end of last year I had the pleasure of working with ALT to develop a policy briefing on Open Education and OER. Open Education and OER – A guide and call to action for policy makers was co-authored by Maren Deepwell, Martin Weller, Joe Wilson and I and it can be downloaded from the […]