Digital Skills Design and Training have published a new open education ebook on Edinburgh Diamond, the University Library’s publishing partner for Diamond Open Access books and journals.

Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (TILT) has been authored by a large team of interdisciplinary learners and educators, led by Dr David Overend, and funded by the Principals Teaching Award Scheme. TILT is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to support educators, course designers, researchers, and learners engaged in interdisciplinary education. The toolkit brings together multiple strands of thought and practice: conceptual framings of interdisciplinarity, practical case studies of teaching and learning across boundaries, strategies for collaboration, methodological approaches to working between disciplines, assessment practices suited to interdisciplinary activity, and the ethical and reflexive dimensions of interdisciplinary practice. The toolkit includes insights from interdisciplinary learners and educators, references to relevant publications, teaching resources, and videos from the interdisciplinary classroom. The insights and resources in the toolkit can be embedded across a wide range of institutional settings, from secondary schools to higher-education programmes.

The TILT ebook and supplementary resources can be downloaded from Edinburgh Diamond under Creative Commons licence here: Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching (TILT)

This new open ebook was produced by the Graphic Design Service, the OER Service, and Edinburgh Diamond, as part of a collaborative project to scope the ebook development process, with a view to launching a new Open Education eBook Service within Digital Skills Design and Training.

To find out more about the creation of open education ebooks, please contact the OER Service at open.education@ed.ac.uk