This is a transcript of a talk I gave as part of the Open Med Project webinar series. Benefits of Open Education and OER from Lorna Campbell What is open education? Open education is many things to many people and there’s no one hard and fast definition. A practice? A philosophy? A movement? A licensing […]
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The Wiki Loves Monuments competition came to a close last Friday and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I was still uploading ancient holiday snaps at quarter to midnight. Who knew I had so many pics of ancient ruins?! By the time the competition closed, a staggering 14,359 new images of UK scheduled […]
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I’ve been spending most of my evenings this week looking through photographs on old laptops, not because I’ve been overtaken by a fit of nostalgia, the reason I’m trawling through old holiday snaps is that I’m looking out pictures to submit to this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments competition. And as a former archaeologist, monuments feature […]
Read moreThe third Open Knowledge Network event in early July 2017, focused on discussing topics put forward by participants and exploring ways forward for the Network. The following topics were discussed – open data sets, data literacy, building a network of open practitioners. Open Data Sets This discussion focused on raising the profile of open data, identifying university data sets that could potentially be opened, encouraging data owners to share their data, collecting usecases around how open data sets might be used in order…
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Earlier this week Christina Hendricks at UBC put out a call for examples of student engagement with open education and OER. I was going to reply in comments but as we have lots of great examples of students getting involved with OER at the University of Edinburgh I thought I’d write a short post here. […]
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I was chuffed to discover today that English Wikipedia’s main page features a link to sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh. It’s always great to see women featured on Wikipedia’s main page, which is viewed by around 4 million people, but I confess to being doubly pleased because I created the […]
Read moreOn Friday 28th April 35 colleagues from across the University came together for the second UoE Open Knowledge Network meet up. The event featured a morning of speakers followed by workshops in the afternoon. Guillaume Evrard has created a Storify of tweets from the event here University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network PhD Thesis Digitisation Project by Gavin Willshaw, University Library & Collections PhD Thesis Digitisation Project from Lorna Campbell Wikipedia in the Classroom – World Christianity by Alex Chow, School…
Read moreRegistration is now open for the second UoE Open Knowledge Network event which will take place on Friday 28th April in Argyle House, University of Edinburgh. The event will feature a morning of talks and discussions with colleagues across the institution followed by hands on workshops and demonstrations in the afternoon. Programme 09.30 – 10.00 Coffee and networking 10.00 – 12.30 Presentations and discussions 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 14.45 DataShare Workshop 15.00 – 16.30 Histropedia and Wiki Data workshop…
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Event Description Open Educational Resources (OER) are a freely available resources that have been specifically licensed for re-use. Wikipedia […]
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