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A Whole University Approach to Sustainability

27th May 2024 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley

The University’s efforts to fight the climate crisis are incorporated across everything we do, including work to reduce carbon emissions and embed sustainability into research, teaching and governance, operations, and partnerships. This includes the work we do in the OER Service and with our Online Course Production Service colleagues.

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Edinburgh Climate Change Institute – Hybrid Tour

10th April 2023 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Photograph of Edinburgh Climate Change Institute

Our Sustainable Campus is a PTAS-funded project in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), University of […]

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  • 01 - For the Common Good
  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • EdinburghOER

Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP27

12th December 2022 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
sign with text One World over painting of the earth

10 videos created for the ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future: Live at COP27’ massive open online course (MOOC) are now […]

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  • 02 - Edinburgh at its best
  • College of Science and Engineering
  • EdinburghOER

Environment & Sustainability Resources

12th July 2021 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Beautiful river view

This year, the UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow in early […]

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  • 01 - For the Common Good
  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • EdinburghOER

Open Education on a Post-Pandemic Planet

2nd June 2021 Melissa Highton

I gave a keynote presentation at Open Apereo conference. Here’s the recording https://youtu.be/D7hL9i-NdyM Here’s the blurb: Open Education on a Post-Pandemic Planet As we try to predict what the future may hold there are a few things  from the Before Times that we still know to be true: Open educational resources, open source software and …

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Kind Clothing: Sustainable Fashion

19th August 2019 Andrew Ferguson
Washing hanging on a clothes line.

Three interactive sessions on concepts of Fast Fashion, the environment & sustainability. Created for Girl Guides, also suitable for Level 2 and 3.

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  • 01 - For the Common Good
  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • EdinburghOER
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Primary and Secondary
  • Second Level
  • Third Level

Sustainability and Conservation

12th August 2019 Andrew Ferguson
Scottish Wildcats

Five workshops introduce learners to the concepts of sustainability and conservation. The topics of wildlife, nature art, habitat loss, scientific methods and waste and pollution are covered.

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  • 01 - For the Common Good
  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • EdinburghOER
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Primary and Secondary
  • Second Level

Food Production and Insects

30th July 2019 Ana McKellar

This resource is a set of 5 lesson plans with slides, an experiment (with worksheets for analysing the results) and assessment items. The target audience for this resource is for learners aged between 14 and 16 years.

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  • 01 - For the Common Good
  • College of Science and Engineering
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  • Fourth level
  • Interdisciplinary
  • National 5

Open Unwrapped Dec 6th – Bike powered home cinema

6th December 2016 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
University of Edinburgh festive bauble gift by Pingked (Flickr) CC BY-NC

Who wouldn’t want a value-for-money home cinema set up for Christmas? Here’s one you can power with your bicycle. The […]

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Open Education Edinburgh

20th November 2015 Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
Woman standing in front of a whiteboard being recorded on a professional video camera

This is the YouTube channel for Open Educational Content from the University of Edinburgh. Many of the videos from our […]

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  • 02 - Edinburgh at its best
  • EdinburghOER
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