The First Week of the Open Content Internship!
Hello, I am Molly – one of the two Open Content Curator Interns for Summer 2022! I’ve just finished my […]
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Starting an Open Content Curator Internship
Hi! I’m Alyssa, one of two Open Content Curator Interns at the Learning Teaching and Web Directorate of the ISG this summer. I am writing this as our first week of meeting new people, training and learning finishes up.
Read moreWikipedia, Student Activism and the Ivory Tower
This was a talk presented at the LILAC 2022 Information Literacy Conference held at Manchester Metropolitan University on 11-13 April 2022. The slides will be uploaded shortly. 0) Intro slide: Video of Manchester Metropolitan University’s Wikipedia page being edited. Anyone can click “Edit” on any page on Wikipedia to improve its open-licensed information with verifiable […]
Read moreOpen eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project Final Report
This is the final report of the Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project. Introduction Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education was a Student Experience Grant funded research and development project that ran from February to July 2021. The project was managed by the OER Service based in Learning, Teaching and Web Services, […]
Read moreOEGlobal Open Curation Award
We are incredibly proud to receive the 2021 OEGlobal Awards for Excellence Open Curation Award for our collection of high quality student made OER on the TES platform.
Since 2015, the University of Edinburgh’s Open Education Resource (OER) Service has collaborated with Geoscience’s Outreach (GO) course, where students create educational projects with community clients, to curate an exceptional collection of high quality OERs into an accessible collection on the TES platform.
Read moreAlysha’s blog on her 2021 internship experience
Over almost the last three months in this summer of 2021 I’ve had the joy of being an Open Content Curator Intern. This has been an incredible experience for me and I feel really privileged to have any job right now, let alone one that I enjoy so much, with a great team.
Read moreWhy Open Policy matters for you -Alysha’s Blog
Policy might be a word that inspires confusion, or fear, but it seems probably important? Well policy is important, but most of the time it isn’t very noticeable as it runs in the background of our lives. However, policy is an area where real change can happen in best practice and working standards.
Read moreAmy’s Edinburgh Award for the Open Content Internship
As part of our Open Content Curation Internship, we have been given an opportunity to complete the Work Experience focused […]
Read moreOpen Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
Before I started this internship, I was an incredibly busy third-year Psychology student studying at the University of Edinburgh. Now, I’m spending my summer before my final year as an intern for the Information Services Group at the university. During my first week, I’ve had a lot of new information thrown at me about what […]
Read moreMy first week as an open content curator intern -Alysha
Hello, I am Alysha, one of two Open Content Curator Interns for the summer of 2021! I have just finished […]
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