An Update on the Open Content Curator Internship
Here we are, past the halfway point. Time really does fly! It’s been weird, work has very quickly become a […]
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Generative AI – Ethics all the way down
How to respond to the affordances and challenges of generative AI is a pressing issue that many learning technologists and open education practitioners are grappling with right now and I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about the interface between …
Read moreFirst Week as an Open Content Curation Intern
Hello, My name is August, and I have now joined Mayu as the other Open Content Curator Intern you will […]
Read moreStarting the Open Content Curator Internship!
Hello! I am Mayu, one of two Open Content Curator Interns working for the OER Service at the University of […]
Read moreTower Block UK Archive uploaded to Edinburgh DataShare
By Stefano Bordoni, Research Data Support Assistant. The Research Data Support team in Library and University Collections has just completed […]
Read moredigital badgers
As previously teased, I am a delighted to say we are launching a 3-year pilot of BadgEd, a new Open Digital Badge service, so that students and staff can earn their stripes and show off their achievements in black and white! It’s taken me a while to get this in place. I am indebted to …
Read moreOpen Scotland @10 Plenary Panel synthesis & outputs
This summary of the Open Scotland @10 plenary panel at OER23 by Lorna M. Campbell was originally published at OpenWorld blog. To mark 10 years of the Open Scotland initiative, Joe Wilson and I ran two events as part of the OER23 Conference at UHI in Inverness, which provided an opportunity for members of the education community to reflect […]
Read moreSocial Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award
The Online Course Production Service, with support from the OER Service, has received a Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award […]
Read moreOER23 Conference: Imagining hopeful futures
I’m a bit late with this OER23 reflection, it’s taken me a couple of weeks to catch up with myself and to let some of the ideas generated by the conference percolate. It was fabulous to see the OER Conference returning to Scotland for the fist time since we hosted it at the University of […]
Read more“Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” – the Edinburgh Award
We know that many students are involved in activities alongside their studies such as volunteering, part-time work, and getting involved in the University community. To help these activities to stand out from the crowd, our University has a new Award for “Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia” to sit beside other available Edinburgh Awards– the Edinburgh Award […]
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