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.
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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.
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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”.
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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 […]
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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 …
Read moreReading 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
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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.
Read moreReading Time: 4 minutesThis post was also posted on the Association for Learning Technologists blog. This year was my fourth trip to MozFest – the annual global gathering of the Mozilla Foundation. The event has been held in Ravensbourne College in London for the last 7 years and … Continue reading MozFest Reflections
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My colleague Anne-Marie Scott has written a lovely blog post about an obscure 17th century map of Iceland that was released under open licence by the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections and found fame on the Commons thanks to Wikipedia, the Euro 2016 Football Championships and Creative Common’s State of the Commons Report. […]
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