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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  • Copyright and Licensing for PhD Students

    Roslin B-006 Basement room Easter Bush Campus, Roslin, United Kingdom

    This session is being run on request for PG students at the Easter Bush campus. If you're creating teaching materials, writing up research or a thesis, or preparing a presentation for a conference and are not really sure whether they can use pictures found online or in articles and how to cite them, then this is the session for you.

  • Women in Red – Wiki meetup

    Argyle House, Room EW.10 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    WikiProject Women in Red are monthly wiki-editathons to address the "Content gender gap" on Wikipedia and address it in a positive way.

  • Black History Month Editathon

    2.36, William Roberston Wing, Old Medical School Doorway 4, Teviot Place, Edinburgh

    In celebration of Black History Month, this event is focused on increasing the representation of women of colour on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is [...]

  • Teaching with Wikipedia: What do I need to know first?

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

    In this session, open to all University of Edinburgh staff, we will discuss best practice from three recent Wikipedia assignments at the University of Edinburgh and outline the steps that would be involved in running a Wikipedia assignment.

  • Wiki Loves Monuments – Adding 2,100 new pictures of Scotland to Wikipedia

    Argyle House (Room EW.09) 3 Lady Lawson St, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    This year, a record 2,100 high quality pics of listed buildings and monuments were added to Wikimedia Commons to help preserve our cultural heritage online. Now that they are Commons, these can now help illustrate Wikipedia for the benefit of all.

    This drop-in session is open to all and will show how easy it is to add these newly taken images to relevant Wikipedia pages.

  • Copyright & Licensing Training

    Joseph Black Building, Room G.69 (King's Buildings) Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    This Copyright and Licensing training course is well-suited to those who require a basic understanding of copyright law, licensing, and open educational resources. For those who already have some knowledge of copyright law and licensing, this course can serve as a refresher.

  • Scottish Living Artists: Wikipedia Editathon

    The Fruitmarket Gallery 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DF

    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.

  • Licensing, Games, and OER: Board Game Jam

    ECA Main Building, Room B22 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    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.

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

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

    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.