This post is written by new Assistant Wikimedian in Residence, Ellie Whitehead. 23 years ago, on 15th January 2001, Wikipedia was launched as an independent, online open-source encyclopaedia. In its first year it amassed 20, 000 articles appearing in 18 different languages. Since then, Wikipedia has grown to be an internationally known and respected symbol […]
Read moreOn Saturday 25th November, Edinburgh University student and staff volunteers ran a successful digital archive event on Saturday as part of the University of Oxford’s Their Finest Hour project. Over 100 members of the public came to the event, and volunteers recorded over 50 interviews and took thousands of photographs of items including a […]
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The OER Service and Online Course Production Service are delighted to be participating in the 2023 Open Education Conference (OpenEd) […]
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The OER Service are recruiting for two new part-time student internships! Each internship is for one day a week, from […]
Read morePublic event aims to preserve Second World War memories The University of Edinburgh is inviting people to bring stories and objects relating to the Second World War to a Digital Collection Day at Rainy Hall, New College on 25th November 2023, from 10am to 4pm. The University of Edinburgh is excited to partner with […]
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Did you know that GitHub is a great platform for hosting and sharing open educational resources? We have an excellent […]
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Do you have any Second World War related stories and objects passed down to you from your parents, grandparents and other family members? Would you like to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to history? Bring your diaries, letters, photos, memories, objects* or stories about your family’s wartime experience to our Digital […]
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The Open Education Service and our wider Educational Engagement and Design Team have been guest posting over on Campus. Campus […]
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Earlier this year we had a conversation with Dr Rupsha Fraser, part of the core team for HCP-Med, about the […]
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