ECA’s Research Folios 2014-2021
Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) submitted 83 portfolios to the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). This is a selection of […]
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The Bottle Imp: A graphic adaptation
This Open Textbook (CC BY-NC-ND) published by Edinburgh Diamond, is the outcome of the AHRC funded research project, Remediating Stevenson: […]
Read moreIntroduction to Bioimage Analysis: Open Textbook Interview
In the fourth of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley talks to Dr Peter Bankhead, Reader in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at The University of Edinburgh. Creator of digital imaging open-source software, QuPath, which has been downloaded close to half a million times, cited in about 3,000 academic articles, and is used all over the world, both in academia and industry. Dr Bankhead has published his open textbook Introduction to Bioimage Analysis using GitHub and Jupyter Books.
Read moreFundamentals of Music Theory: Open E-Textbook Interview
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 moreR@R(D)SVS: Open Textbook Interview
In the second of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley talks to Dr Jill Mackay, Senior Lecturer (Veterinary Medical Education) at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Dr Mackay is a proponent of open science, and particularly exploring how education research can adopt open science practices. She has created and published multiple OER, including the open textbook R@R(D)SVS designed to help staff and students get to grips with with R programming.
Read moreEdinburgh Diamond: Open Textbook Interview
To celebrate Open Education Week 2024, Charlie Farley has interviewed staff across the University on their experiences making and using Open Textbooks. In this post, she talks to Rebecca Wojturska about Edinburgh Diamond, the University’s Open Publishing Service.
Read moreIntroduction to Bioimage Analysis
This Open Textbook by Dr Peter Bankhead of The University of Edinburgh Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine published on […]
Read moreOpen Textbooks and OER Webinar
Last week Lorna Campbell, OER Service Manager, and Dhara Snowden, Textbook Programme Manager at UCL Press, joined Jane Secker and […]
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, […]
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