Alysha’s experience using the volcanoes OER -Blog
Hello! I am Alysha, an open content curator intern for the summer of 2021. I also love volunteering as a […]
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M&M Podcast on Knowledge Equity
Earlier this week I had the very great pleasure of joining my colleagues Myles Blaney and Michael Gallagher for their fabulous M&M Podcast to talk about knowledge equity. I’m a big fan of the M&M Podcast and knowledge equity is a topic that is very close to my heart so I really enjoyed the experience. […]
Read moreOpen Data and Knowledge Equity – my first week by student intern, Clea Strathmann
Before I started this internship, I was an incredibly busy third-year Psychology student studying at the University of Edinburgh. Now, I’m spending my summer before my final year as an intern for the Information Services Group at the university. During my first week, I’ve had a lot of new information thrown at me about what […]
Read moreMy first week as a Wikisourceror – Guest post by student intern, Erin Boyle
View an Intro to Wikisource – the free and open digital hyper library! (1hr)
Upload pdfs of free books to Wikipedia’s sister project and help proofread the OCR-ed text so readers can discover, enjoy and be inspired by songs, letters, p…
My first week as an open content curator intern -Alysha
Hello, I am Alysha, one of two Open Content Curator Interns for the summer of 2021! I have just finished […]
Read moreMy first week as an Open Content Curator Intern – Amy
Hi everyone, my name is Amy and I am one of the 2021 Open Content Curator Interns. I have just […]
Read moreBoris Johnson presented Joe Biden with my photo of Frederick Douglass to mark their first meeting
A picture I shared on Wikimedia has been given by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a gift to President Joe Biden. Just goes to show that serendipitous things happen when you share openly. President Biden and Dr Biden are visiting the UK this week. In preparation for the visit the Downing Street offices began …
Read moreOpen Education on a Post-Pandemic Planet
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 …
Read moreOERXDomains21 Conference Reflection ~ Ana Reina
By Ana Reina. Two weeks ago, our team had the chance to participate in the OERxDomains Conference organized by the Association of Learning Technology. Lorna, Kari, Ifeanyichukwu and I delivered a short presentation about our project and the conclusions we had achieved so far working with OER resources transforming pre-existent content into a textbook. Besides […]
Read moreOERXDomains21 Conference Reflection ~ Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu
By Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu Attending the two days OERxDomains 2021 conference was a very insightful experience through which my co-interns and I were able to present about the ongoing music theory e-textbook project alongside Lorna Campbell. Attending other seminars by speakers from around the world further opened up my mind towards understanding OER in a broader perspective and this blog will focus on discussing about three presentations that I find fascinating and relatable to the ongoing project […]
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