Open Unwrapped – Snow fall quiz
The 7th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is a Snow Fall video quiz, created by Iraklis Pantopolous to test […]
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Open Unwrapped – a robin’s birdcall
The 6th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the song of a European Robin, or Robin Red Breast, from The British Library, and shared in the Europeana collection.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Callanish Stones
The 5th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an image of the Callanish Stones on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Taken by our very own Lorna Campbell and uploaded to Wikipedia as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 event.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Daffodils in George Square
Bringing some sunshine to this winter day, the 4th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an Open Media Snippet of Daffodils in George square.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Percy Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’.
The 3rd of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the digital scan of the letters and manuscript of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’. Addressed to Edward Williams, the poem is one of eleven Percy wrote for Jane Williams. In the note included with this manuscript Percy writes that Edward may read the poem to Jane “but to no one else”.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – WikiBooks Christmas Recipes
Our 2nd ‘Twelve days of Open’ unwraps WikiBooks Christmas Recipes! Wikibooks one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Tripple-Fretted Clavichord
Welcome to our 12 days of #OpenUnwrapped on the Open.Ed blog! Over the next 12 days we’ll be sharing Open Educational Resources, items that have been openly licensed for re-mix, re-share, and re-use. Ranging from images, videos, sounds, artworks, tools, games, papers, and more.
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EqualBITE: Gender equality in higher education is an open access book to which I contributed a chapter. My chapter is about the positive power of wikipedia editathons, but the book contains a full range of ideas and responses to tackling the real lived experience of inequality in higher education. The piece I wrote I wrote …
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Reading Time: 3 minutesAnother visit to my beloved Mansfield Traquair Centre this evening. 17 years on and it still takes my breath away. To have the responsibility and the stewardship of a place like this a privilege. This evening was the Friends AGM. Formal business was blessedly succinct. … Continue reading Open for all
Read moreWhere to find OER by The University of Edinburgh
Our staff and students are encouraged to create, licence, and share their own resources anywhere on the web that is suitable for whatever type of resource they create. Our aim is to make the content that much more accessible and discoverable. Additionally, accounts have been created on a number of platforms to share resources under the Open.Ed banner.
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