In our fifth and final Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interview, Charlie Farley talks to Mayu Ishimoto, an Architectural History and Heritage student who worked as an Open Content Curator intern with the OER Service over the summer of 2023. Mayu now works one day a week as an intern with the OER Service, and published the open textbook Birds of Midlothian as one of her summer projects.
Read more
In the third of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley talks to Dr Nikki Moran, Senior Lecturer in Music at the ECA. Niki is lead author and presenter of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Fundamentals of Music Theory, engaging 300000 active learners and recruiting around 500 new students per week. Fundamentals of Music Theory was the first open e-textbook published on Edinburgh Diamond as part of a pilot project in collaboration with the OER Service.
Read moreOn Saturday 25th November, Edinburgh University student and staff volunteers ran a successful digital archive event on Saturday as part of the University of Oxford’s Their Finest Hour project. Over 100 members of the public came to the event, and volunteers recorded over 50 interviews and took thousands of photographs of items including a […]
Read more
The OER Service are recruiting for two new part-time student internships! Each internship is for one day a week, from […]
Read morePublic event aims to preserve Second World War memories The University of Edinburgh is inviting people to bring stories and objects relating to the Second World War to a Digital Collection Day at Rainy Hall, New College on 25th November 2023, from 10am to 4pm. The University of Edinburgh is excited to partner with […]
Read more
Our 2023 Open Content Curator Interns, August Enger and Mayu Ishimoto, talk about their internships and what they have learned […]
Read more
Since 2019, each summer a Data Visualisation Intern has worked with Ewan McAndrew our Wikimedian in Residence on an ongoing […]
Read moreRegister for the event here: https://edin.ac/451MiRy
Do you have any Second World War related stories and objects passed down to you from your parents, grandparents and other family members? Would you like to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to history? Bring your diaries, letters, photos, memories, objects* or stories about your family’s wartime experience to our Digital […]
Read more
It is a cliché, but it always feels unbelievably fast how the time with a long daytime passes by. Now […]
Read more
