Openness, Equality and Inclusion
A collection of resources focussing on openness, equality and inclusion developed by the Open.Ed service. The Long View: Changing Perspectives […]
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Open Education Practice
A collection of resources on Open Education Practice developed by the Open.Ed service. The Long View: Changing Perspectives on OER […]
Read moreLooking Behind the Curtain
Before Christmas by lovely former colleague R. John Robertson invited me to answer some questions about digital literacy for a course on Digital Literacy and Life that he’s teaching with Cindy Strong at Seattle Pacific University. I’m late with these responses as usual, but it was a really interesting and thought provoking exercise because I’ve never […]
Read moreOpen for all? Engaging with open education practice at the personal and institutional level
A couple of weeks ago I gave a webinar as part of Jane Secker’s new online course on Digital Literacies and Open Practice at City, University of London. The lecture was called Open for all? Engaging with open education practice at the personal and institutional level and the recording is available here (Adobe Connect). The webinar provided an […]
Read moreMini-series: Don’t panic! Content and copyright for lecture recording
This post previously appeared on the University of Edinburgh’s Teaching Matters blog. Can I use copyright materials in my lectures? What about film clips? What if my lecture is recorded? How can I make sure I won’t get into trouble? Lorna Campbell and Charlie Farley, from the Educational Design and Engagement team in Learning, Teaching and […]
Read moreBlogging to Build your Professional Profile
Last month the University of Edinburgh rolled out a new centrally supported Academic Blogging Service, which provides staff and students with a range of different blogs to support professional development and learning, teaching and research activities. The service has already been hugely successful, with almost 200 new blogs created in the last four weeks. My […]
Read moreAda Lovelace, Exmoor ponies and the trouble with sources
I didn’t manage to post a blog post on Ada Lovelace Day this year because I spent most of my spare time in the run up to the event looking for sources for the twenty contemporary Women in STEM nominated for Wikipedia article creation as part of the University of Edinburgh’s Ada Lovelace Day Editathon. […]
Read moreUniveristy of Edinburgh wins Wikimedia UK Partnership of the Year Award
Earlier in July I was delighted and a little stunned when the University of Edinburgh won Wikimedia UK’s Partnership of the Year award for the second time. Delighted because so many people have worked so tirelessly and so enthusiastically to embed Wikipedia in teaching and learning across the University, led of course by our indefatigable […]
Read moreOpen.Ed at RepoFringe18
Way back at the beginning of July my lovely OER Service colleague Charlie and I had a 10X10 presentation accepted for the the Repository Fringe conference. We agreed that I would write the talk and Charlie would go along and present on the day. Alas disaster struck and poor Charlie came down with a nasty […]
Read moreReflections on CELT Symposium 2018
I was delighted to have the opportunity to visit NUI Galway last week for the annual CELT Symposium. It was the first time I’d been to Galway, but it reminded me a lot of a (much!) bigger version of my home town of Stornoway in the Western Isles so it felt a bit like home […]
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