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Intern Reflection: Guess who’s back (back again)?

Lake by the Pentlands

I’m Sanika, and last year I was the Open Textbook Creation Intern for seven months working on Open Educational Resources and process documents for the new textbook service. I am back for the summer and this year I’ve gone technical with it, and as the OER Web Migration intern, I’ve thrown myself into the complex technological programming code world of… Microsoft Excel. I may be working for an IT company but at my heart I am a word person, and Excel allows me to excel at collating words in a giant web audit.

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My first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern

Edinburgh old town landscape as seen from Princes Street Gardens.

Hello! I’m Charlotte, this year’s Open Educational Resources (OER) summer intern within the University’s Information Services Group. My first week of this internship has thus far been largely characterised by extensive reading – which, as a French and English Literature student, I assure you that I am quite accustomed to! In perusing both the OER service’s digital catalogue of published resources (on Open.Ed, TES Resources and Edinburgh Diamond, to name a few) and the vast array of online open access textbooks similarly published by other institutions, in such a brief span of time I feel I have already become thoroughly familiar with the department’s operations and its fundamental values, namely of providing widespread, barrier-free access to teaching and research materials of high quality.

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Intern Reflection: The End!

Image of houses in Strasbourg on the side of a canal

Over half a year has flown by since I joined the Information Services Group, and I cannot believe that my internship has come to an end. I have had the opportunity to help get the Open Textbook Creation Service going from its initial stages, and seeing the fruits of my labour has been particularly exciting recently.

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Intern Reflection: Getting Started!

Victora Street in Edinburgh in the morning, before most shops opened.

Hello! I’m Sanika, and it’s been three weeks since I’ve started on as the Open Textbook Creation Intern at the Information Services Group at the University, working with the Digital Skills, Design and Training section. 

In these three weeks, I’ve edited educational resources for primary and secondary school students, formatted a digital handbook, and learnt what all those tiny symbols at the bottom of the page mean about copyright. I’ve been eager to implement the things I know from my previous experiences, and even more excited to discover how much I didn’t know about academic publishing and graphic design. 

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