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.

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Introduction to Wikipedia’s sister project: Wikisource – the Free Digital Library

Room 1.08, Main Library, George Square (Central Area) Edinburgh

This session will introduce you to Wikisource: Wikimedia’s free library of openly-licensed source texts.
Including: what Wikisource is and how you can engage with it, a short practical activity where you will learn how to navigate Wikisource and proofread a page of text, and an example of how an out-of-copyright/openly-licensed PhD thesis has been transcribed to Wikisource so the text is now 100% searchable, quality-checked and linked to from Wikipedia just 1 click away.

Licensing, Games, and OER: Board Game Jam

ECA Main Building, Room B22 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

Hands-on workshop to create a n OER board game. Explore prototyping and play testing and adding variety and fun by employing different game mechanics.

Scottish Living Artists: Wikipedia Editathon

The Fruitmarket Gallery 45 Market Street, Edinburgh

This collaborative event between Edinburgh University’s Centre for Design Informatics, the University’s Wikimedian in Residence, and the Fruitmarket Gallery will give participants a chance to shape information about living Scottish artists for future researchers.