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.
23 Things for Digital Knowledge is an award winning, open, and self-paced course for digital and online skills. In this webinar we’ll be looking at Things 10 – 23 and consolidating the knowledge and digital wisdom we’ve gained from exploring the course.
Law student Jemima John is running a WikiProject Law edit-a-thon on 15 May. This event is aimed towards adding and/or improving legal articles on Wikipedia as part of the WikiProject Law specifically in the area of technology law and intellectual property.
Using Wikidata, information on Wikipedia can be queried & visualised as never before. Beyond this, SPARQL queries can analyse datasets from Wikidata, and through federated queries, analyse data from multiple other sources.
The practical applications in Higher Education of the most recent social or technical development (MOOCs, social media, digitisation and online [...]
Celebrate the lives & contributions of the suffragettes and all the incredible women missing from Wikipedia! This event is part of 2018’s celebration of one hundred years since the Representation of the People Act (1918)came into force and women were finally given the right to vote.
This one hour presentation is the first topic in the Lecture Recording Training Programme and provides practical advice to help [...]
Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website in the world and a top 5 referrer of DOIs. Citing high quality [...]
Wikidata – “the source for open structured data on the web and for facts within Wikipedia.” (Wallis, 2014) Wikidata is a free and open [...]
Safeguarding digital heritage and ‘the democracy of reading’ (Smith in Shaffi, 2015) has never been more important. In this session we [...]
This one hour webinar is the first topic in the Lecture Recording Training Programme and provides practical advice to help [...]
