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OER24 Conference: Empowering Student Engagement with Open Education
March 25, 2024 3:16 pm by EDE – Open World
This week I’m looking forward to traveling to Cork with OER Service intern Mayu Ishimoto for the OER24 Conference. The conference is being hosted by the Munster Institute of Technology this year and chaired by the Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin and Tom Farrell...
bird silhouettes showing relative size to each other Birds of Midlothian: Open Textbook Interview
March 8, 2024 4:13 pm by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
In our fifth and final Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interview, Charlie Farley talks to Mayu Ishimoto, an Architectural History and Heritage student who worked as an Open Content Curator intern with the OER Service over the summer of 2023. Mayu now works one day a week as an intern with the OER Service, and published the open textbook Birds of Midlothian as one of her summer projects.
Ilustration of three ghost shaped microscopy characters Introduction to Bioimage Analysis: Open Textbook Interview
March 7, 2024 12:07 pm by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
In the fourth of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley talks to Dr Peter Bankhead, Reader in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer at The University of Edinburgh. Creator of digital imaging open-source software, QuPath, which has been downloaded close to half a million times, cited in about 3,000 academic articles, and is used all over the world, both in academia and industry. Dr Bankhead has published his open textbook Introduction to Bioimage Analysis using GitHub and Jupyter Books.
Black and white image of sheet music Fundamentals of Music Theory: Open E-Textbook Interview
March 6, 2024 11:00 am by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
In the third of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley  talks to Dr Nikki Moran, Senior Lecturer in Music at the ECA. Niki is lead author and presenter of the University of Edinburgh’s Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), Fundamentals of Music Theory, engaging 300000 active learners and recruiting around 500 new students per week. Fundamentals of Music Theory was the first open e-textbook published on Edinburgh Diamond as part of a pilot project in collaboration with the OER Service.
Illustration of a rat and text: RatR(D)SVS R@R(D)SVS: Open Textbook Interview
March 5, 2024 2:33 pm by Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
In the second of our Open Education Week 2024 open textbook interviews, Charlie Farley  talks to Dr Jill Mackay, Senior Lecturer (Veterinary Medical Education) at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies. Dr Mackay is a proponent of open science, and particularly exploring how education research can adopt open science practices. She has created and published multiple OER, including the open textbook R@R(D)SVS designed to help staff and students get to grips with with R programming.

OER Channels

Edinburghs OERs
OERs from across the University

TES Resources
Award winning open resources for school teachers.

Short Online Courses
Free short online courses.

Open Media Bank
Videos from our MOOCs & free short online courses.

Media Hopper Create
Creative Commons licensed videos.

Open Media Stock Footage
Open licensed media snippets for downloading & reuse.

Wikimedian in Residence
Videos from our Wikimedian in Residence.

3D Models
Open licensed models of heritage, geology & anatomy artefacts.