Open Unwrapped Dec 6th – Bike powered home cinema
Who wouldn’t want a value-for-money home cinema set up for Christmas? Here’s one you can power with your bicycle. The […]
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Open Unwrapped Dec 5th – Free Willy: Shakespeare and OER
In this keynote, presented at the #OER16 Open Culture Conference at the University of Edinburgh, Dr Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 4th – Apocalypse Later
Apocalypse Later is a card game created by students during a hands-on board game jam workshop in 2016. During the session students […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 3rd – Garden of Ada
‘Garden of Ada’ is an adult colouring-in illustration of Ada Lovelace, based on the nineteenth century A. E. Chalon portrait […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 2nd – Greensleeves – Bassano
Greensleeves is a traditional English folk song and tune, often used in the UK by ice-cream vans. Christmas and New Year […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 1st – Nort Atlantik Drift
Enjoy beautiful scenes, sounds, and poetry with this short clip showcasing a film about Shetlandic poet, Robert Alan Jamieson. Using his […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – An Advent of Open
Over 24 days leading up to Christmas we will be posting a new #OpenUnwrapped advent item on our Open.Ed blog. […]
Read more23 Things: Thing 13 Video
So here’s a thing…. (thing…get it?) …. although I consume as much online video as the next person I don’t actually produce a great deal, though there are plenty of embarrassing videos of me on YouTube from various conferences and events. Recently however I did have to produce a couple of videos. The first was […]
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Thing 12 of our 23 things is OER. I talk a lot about OER. Last week I was talking about it in Barcelona, this week I’m talking about it in Paris, in two weeks I’ll be in Berlin. I also write a bit about OER. On this blog and occasionally for case studies and articles. …
Read moreOpen Education and Co-Creation
Last month I was invited to present a guest lecture on Open Education and Co-Creation as part of the Institute for Academic Development’s Introduction to Online Distance Learning staff development course.The lecture covers an introduction and overview of open learning, OER and open licences and includes a co-creation case study about the fabulous work of […]
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