Teaching Matters OER Theme Roundup
Last week, the OER Service’s Teaching Matters blog theme, marking five years of Open Education Resources at the University of […]
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OERxDomains21 – All Change
The OER Conference is always one of the highlights of the year for me. I’ve been privileged to attend every single one since conference launched in 2010 and it’s been interesting to see how the event has changed as open education has evolved over the last 11 years. My keynote at the 2018 conference focused […]
Read moreEDUCAUSE Horizon Report case study
The 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report on Teaching and Learning was published yesterday and it includes a short case study on […]
Read moreThe Scale of Open: Re-purposing open resources for music education
This is the transcript of a talk written by Lorna M. Campbell and Nikki Moran, presented at the OERxDomains21 Conference by Lorna M. Campbell, Kari Ding, Ifeanyichukwu Ezinmadu and Ana Reina Garcia. Slide are available from Slideshare: The Scale of Open Introduction This talk will reflect on how the University of Edinburgh’s strategic commitment to […]
Read moreOpen Book Platforms Research: UoE Open Press Service
After doing our research on the publishers that worked with open books, we got an idea of what we were aiming to have in our textbook and how we wanted it to be. To become more accessible and achieve wider public, we agreed that the textbook should be published in at least three main formats: HTML, EPUB […]
Read moreOpen Book Platforms Research: GitHub
GitHub is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. GitHub pages is a subsidiary of GitHub which presents its content in form of a website. Although it is designed to be used by users with some experience of coding, this has been simplified using Jekyll. Jekyll is an additional extension which transforms plain text into codes in form of a static […]
Read moreI Made a Book! and New Drawings
Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome back. I hope you are (reasonably) well and that spring and the return of the sun is making your lives a little bit brighter. Regardless, thank you for tuning in on another blog post about the We Have Great Stuff – Volume 3 colouring book. Teaching for this semester is over, and I cannot […]
Read moreOpen Educational Resources: An equitable future for education in Scotland
by Lorna M. Campbell and Joe Wilson In the 8 years since the launch of Open Scotland, the aims of this voluntary cross sector initiative, and the Scottish Open Education Declaration [1], are more relevant than ever: To raise awareness of open education, encourage the sharing of open educational resources, and explore the potential of […]
Read moreTelling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia
As LGBT History month draws to a close this month, I wanted to pay tribute to a collaboration brought about through Siobhan Claude at the University of Edinburgh’s Staff Pride Network and my colleague, Lorna Campbell, who suggested telling the history of HIV/AIDS activism and awareness in Scotland on Wikipedia. It seemed inconceivable that Wikipedia …
Read moreOpen for Good: Five years of Open Education Resources at the University of Edinburgh
In order to mark five years of Open Education Resources (OER) at the University of Edinburgh and to coincide with […]
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