OER Service Digital Skills Events
The OER Service runs a wide range of workshops and events as part of the University's Digital Skills programme. Our up and coming events are listed below, and you can find a full list of workshops we offer here: OER Service Digital Skills. If you would like us to come to your school or college to run a session tailored to your requirements, please contact us at open.ed@ed.ac.uk.
October 2021
Women in Red – a monthly workshop to add more biographies of women to Wikipedia
Join us in our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red 'edit-a-thon'. This event focuses primarily on improving the systematic bias on…
Find out more »November 2021
Teaching with Wikipedia: a practical ‘how to’ workshop
This event will demo best practice from working with over ten course programmes at the University of Edinburgh over the last…
Find out more »Witches, maps, and linked open data with Wikidata, Wikipedia’s sister project
Wikidata – “the source for open structured data on the web and for facts within Wikipedia.” (Wallis, 2014) Wikidata is a free and open…
Find out more »Introduction to Wikipedia’s sister project: Wikisource – the Free Digital Library
Safeguarding digital heritage and ‘the democracy of reading’ (Smith in Shaffi, 2015) has never been more important. In this session we…
Find out more »Building Blocks of UK Copyright and Exceptions
Copyright and licensing training is an important way to build confidence, awareness, and staff skills, enabling the provision of teaching,…
Find out more »Open education in the curriculum
Creating and using open educational resources is an important way to ensure longevity of access to course materials, and this…
Find out more »Women in Red – a monthly workshop to add more biographies of women to Wikipedia
Join us in our monthly Wikipedia Women in Red 'edit-a-thon'. This event focuses primarily on improving the systematic bias on…
Find out more »Creative Commons Quick Start – A short introduction to using CC licences
Confused by Creative Commons?? At a loss about licences?? Bewildered by attribution?? If you’re new to Creative Commons licences or simply need…
Find out more »December 2021
Teaching with Wikipedia: a practical ‘how to’ workshop
This event will demo best practice from working with over ten course programmes at the University of Edinburgh over the last…
Find out more »Copyright and licensing for hybrid teaching
Building upon the introductory ‘Building blocks of UK copyright and exceptions’ this information session provides teaching staff with guidance on…
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