Many thanks to Klara Finnimore and Vicky Drew from UKSG for inviting the University of Edinburgh’s OER Service to speak on our experiences of sustainable strategic support for OER at their UKSG OER Online Seminar 2025. Below are the slides and transcript of the presentation. Presentation created by Lorna M. Campbell and Stephanie Charlie Farley. … Continue reading Open for Good: Strategic support for OER at the University of Edinburgh (UKSG OER online seminar 2025)
Category: technology
Thriving for a new balance
Something hard to maintain in my working life as a learning technologist is the thing called ‘balance’. On a daily basis, there seems to be too much technology and not enough learning. When software developers work hard on improving their products, it’…
Slow musings …
I just noticed that my last entry (about the Brookes Learning and Teaching Conference in July) is already more than half a year old, and I’m asking myself if there isn’t that much happening any longer which would be worthwhile musing about.One of the t…
Slow musings …
I just noticed that my last entry (about the Brookes Learning and Teaching Conference in July) is already more than half a year old, and I’m asking myself if there isn’t that much happening any longer which would be worthwhile musing about.One of the t…
Thing 5: Emoji’s and Diversity
Thing 5 asks you to consider the impact of diverse representation via the emojis we all know and love. I wrote a blog about the impact of emoji’s taking over how we write things, certainly in a colloquial manner. I remember when it was in the news not so long ago, regarding the ability to […]
Thing 4
Thing 4 requires you to consider the data you share with the apps on your mobile and tablet devices. I was encouraged to download an app and then have a look through the list of permissions each of my apps have. Some want to know your exact GPS location, which is understandable for apps such […]
Dream Wall Pitch
This partition of the dream wall, which was created at the JISC Digital Festival 2014 (11/12 March) in Birmingham. At first I wasn’t sure if I should post it, because it seemed a bit ‘out of context’ on its own, but I just discovered that it fits in re…
Dream Wall Pitch
This partition of the dream wall, which was created at the JISC Digital Festival 2014 (11/12 March) in Birmingham. At first I wasn’t sure if I should post it, because it seemed a bit ‘out of context’ on its own, but I just discovered that it fits in re…
Synchronous or asynchronous – is that the question?
The TeaLaB session (Teaching and Learning at Brookes) on Friday 31 January was titled ‘Synchronous technologies – the answer to poor online engagement?’ Its focus was on Abi Ball’s research about the use of synchronous and asynchronous technologies in …
Synchronous or asynchronous – is that the question?
The TeaLaB session (Teaching and Learning at Brookes) on Friday 31 January was titled ‘Synchronous technologies – the answer to poor online engagement?’ Its focus was on Abi Ball’s research about the use of synchronous and asynchronous technologies in …