Accessible and Inclusive Resource Publishing
This resource is a collaborative effort and was created for Geoscience Outreach students to practice considering the accessibility, inclusivity, and […]
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Generative AI – Ethics all the way down
How to respond to the affordances and challenges of generative AI is a pressing issue that many learning technologists and open education practitioners are grappling with right now and I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about the interface between …
Read moreOpen Scotland @10 Plenary Panel synthesis & outputs
This summary of the Open Scotland @10 plenary panel at OER23 by Lorna M. Campbell was originally published at OpenWorld blog. To mark 10 years of the Open Scotland initiative, Joe Wilson and I ran two events as part of the OER23 Conference at UHI in Inverness, which provided an opportunity for members of the education community to reflect […]
Read moreOER23 Conference: Imagining hopeful futures
I’m a bit late with this OER23 reflection, it’s taken me a couple of weeks to catch up with myself and to let some of the ideas generated by the conference percolate. It was fabulous to see the OER Conference returning to Scotland for the fist time since we hosted it at the University of […]
Read moreALTC 2022 – Reconnecting
Earlier this month the annual ALT Conference returned as an in-person event for the first time since the pandemic. Around 400 participants joined the hybrid conference at the University of Manchester, for both an in-person and online programme. For many delegates it was their first in-person conference since the Before Times and I think it’s […]
Read moreE-Learning and Digital Cultures
These videos formed part of the E-learning and Digital Cultures MOOC, an influential MOOC from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre […]
Read moreDigital Divides: Bias and EDI in tech
After attending Vicki and Lilinaz’s workshop on Equality and Diversity Inclusion (EDI) and then Vicki and Amy’s focus group, it […]
Read moreOER22 In Person & Online
Last week I was at the OER22 Conference, and I was actually at the conference because for the first time in two years the OER Conference was in person and online. OER22 was a hybrid conference in every sense of the word; the first day took place in London, the second day featured recorded online […]
Read moreA Culture of Sharing: Strategic Support for OER at the University of Edinburgh
Many thanks to P-8 Digital Skills Project “Strengthening Digital Skills in Teaching”, ETH Zürich and ZHAW for inviting me to speak at their OER Conference 21. Slides and transcript of my talk, which highlights the work of Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan McAndrew, GeoScience Outreach students and Open Content Curation Interns, are available here. Before we […]
Read moreFundamentals of Music Theory – Adventures in open textbooks
Last week I was delighted to see a project that I’ve been working on since the beginning of the year come to fruition with the publication of the Fundamentals of Music Theory open textbook on the University of Edinburgh Library’s new ebook …
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