A Conversation Between the OER Interns
Sanika Prakash Hi, I’m Sanika. I’m going into my fourth year of History of Art and English Literature and I’ve […]
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Useless Interns and the Fragile Internet
The Open.Ed site has over 500 OER posts and about an equal number of blog posts, and I’ve been going through them manually in an audit, which has been time-consuming and repetitive.
When I’ve been asked about my job, many people have wondered why the whole process isn’t just automated. I’ve had a lot of questions on why I didn’t just use AI or code to scrape all of the data from WordPress and have believed that I had one of those ‘vanity internships’, where I get an experience for my LinkedIn but offer no real benefit for the company.
There are two very good reasons for this; copyright and the fragility of digital information.
Intern Reflection: Guess who’s back (back again)?
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.
Read moreMy first week as an Open Educational Resources Intern
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!
Read moreIntern Reflection: The End!
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.
Read moreIntern Reflection: ‘Words, words, words.’ (Hamlet 2.2.210)
Towards the end of my summer internship I’ve been working with a lot of words. Whether it be process documents, […]
Read moreIntern Reflection: Getting Started!
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.
Read moreMapping the Accused Witches of Scotland in place and time
A collection of presentations recorded at the Edinburgh Futures Institute on 23rd October 2024 on the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft […]
Read moreISG Student Staff Member of the Year Award
Congratulations to Eden Swimer, winner of the Staff Student Member of the Year Award at the 2024 ISG Staff Recognition Awards. Eden was employed by the OER Service in 2023 to help organise and run our Digital Collection Day as part of the University of…
Read moreGoodbye and Thank You to our OER Service Interns
At the end of this month we’re saying goodbye to all four of our fabulous OER Service interns Mayu Ishimoto, […]
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