Open Knowledge in the Curriculum: Building competencies, attributes and literacies
This is the full transcript of a talk presented by Lorna M.Campbell, Ewan McAndrew, Kay Douglas and Stephanie (Charlie) Farley […]
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Posts that will be imported into new Blogs.ed website (blogs.ed.ac.uk/open-ed/).
Creative Commons and COVID-19: A Brief Overview
As part of the ongoing series of free webinars Copyright, Fair Dealing and Online Teaching at a Time of Crisis […]
Read moreFor the Common Good – Responding to the global pandemic with OER
Last week, in response to the disruption of education caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO issued a Call for […]
Read moreCritical responses
What should an ancient research university with a famous medical school and a track record of distance learning do in a time of pandemic crisis? I hear you ask. Publish a massive open online course full of openly licensed resources, of course. And so we did. COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application Frontline staff can …
Read moreOER20: Care, hope and activism
The OER Conference is always one of the highlights of the year for me. It’s the only open education conference I attend regularly and I’m privileged to have been present at every single one since the conference launched at the University of Cambridge back in 2010. So needless to say, I was gutted that the […]
Read moreFree, adaptable, digital teaching resources from UoE
While we’re all working to move classes online, we want to remind you that our website Open.Ed, has a range of resources, guides, advice, tips, and tools for locating, adapting, and re-using openly licensed learning and teaching resources.
The OER Service pages provide support, guidance and resources on:
Finding and using OERs: https://open-ed-migration.is.ed.ac.uk/finding-and-using-oer/
Copyright, licensing and OER: https://open-ed-migration.is.ed.ac.uk/copyright-and-open-licensing/, and
Open licensing for lecture recording: https://open-ed-migration.is.ed.ac.uk/copyright-and-open-licensing-for-lecture-recording/.
A Common Purpose: Wikimedia, Open Education and Knowledge Equity for all Introduction
At the end of February I was honoured to be invited to present the closing keynote at the Wikimedia in Education Summit at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University. This is the transcript of my talk. Introduction Although I’m originally an archaeologist by background, I’ve worked in the domain of learning technology for over twenty […]
Read moreOur commitment to open source
By Stratos Filalithis. This post originally apeared on the Website and Communications blog. Working in the open has been a […]
Read moreOER digital curation using Xerte within a Master of Public Health online group assignment
This talk by Brendan Owers, Usher Institute, and Alison Christie, University of Edinburgh Business School, was presented at the ALT […]
Read moreDunfermline College of Physical Education: A personal connection
While I was off on strike I was able to spend some time finishing a project I’ve been working on for a couple of months; editing the Wikipedia page for Dunfermline College of Physical Education. I was inspired to update the existing page by the recent Body Language exhibition at the University of Edinburgh Library […]
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