Costumes and Romance?
I always enjoy a good dig around our digitised collections for different celebrations and days as there’s always something new […]
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Open Education and AI: Proselytisers, prophets and poets.
I’ve been dipping my toes back into the debate about open education and AI over the last few weeks. I stepped back from this space earlier in the year both for personal reasons and because I was getting a bit dispirited by the signal to noise ratio. It’s still a very noisy space, more so […]
Read moreReflections on ‘Their Finest Hour’
In July 2023, I began working on Their Finest Hour, my internship, I was initially told, would last six months. Yet, I am now clocking off, one year later, after continuous exciting and rewarding work on the project. The last year has involved a huge variety of challenges. Organising the collection day itself involved events […]
Read moreRecording Everyday Social History – Open Educational Resource
Over the last few months, I have been working on an Open Educational Resource (OER) based on Their Finest Hour and stories and objects collected during the Digital Collection Day in Edinburgh. The OER, Recording Everyday Social History, which is aimed at the second and third levels of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence (age range […]
Read moreTheir Finest Hour Archive Launch
On the 6th June, the online archive for Their Finest Hour will be launched, after 73 Digital Collection Day events took place across the UK in 2023 and 2024, including the one that we ran at the University of Edinburgh on 25 November 2023,. Overall, Their Finest Hour digitised over 25,000 previously hidden artefacts from […]
Read moreOER24: Gathering Courage
Last week the OER24 Conference took place at the Munster Technological University in Cork and I was privileged to go along with our OER Service intern Mayu Ishimoto. The themes of this year’s conference were: Open Education Landscape and Transformation Equity and Inclusion in OER Open Source and Scholarly Engagement Ethical Dimensions of Generative AI […]
Read moreOER24 Conference: Empowering Student Engagement with Open Education
This week I’m looking forward to traveling to Cork with OER Service intern Mayu Ishimoto for the OER24 Conference. The conference is being hosted by the Munster Institute of Technology this year and chaired by the Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin and Tom Farrell…
Read moreUpload Stage & WW2 Educational Resource
The upload stage of Edinburgh’s Their Finest Hour project has begun! After collecting over fifty testimonies, and thousands of photographs of WW2-related objects at the collection day, we are now working through the stories and photos, and uploading them to Oxford’s online archive that will launch in June. While we do this, we’re keeping a […]
Read moreCisinformed: Disinformation and the Media War on Transgender Rights
This is a recording of a talk by TJ Billard followed by a Q&A session hosted by the Staff Pride […]
Read moreOpen Education Conference (OpenEd) 2023
The OER Service and Online Course Production Service are delighted to be participating in the 2023 Open Education Conference (OpenEd) […]
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