{"id":782,"date":"2018-08-07T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/?p=782"},"modified":"2018-08-09T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T13:29:26","slug":"open-ed-oer-and-open-knowledge-at-the-university-of-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/open-ed-oer-and-open-knowledge-at-the-university-of-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Open.Ed \u2013 OER and Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following post was co-written by Stephanie &#8216;Charlie&#8217; Farley and Lorna Campbell who work at the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s Open Education Resources (OER) Service. It was presented by Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan McAndrew, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/repofringe18\/2018\/03\/26\/repositoryfringe2018\/\">Repository Fringe Conference 2018<\/a> held on 2nd &amp; 3rd July 2018 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Open.Ed\u00a0 &#8211; <\/b><b>OER &amp; Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>by <\/b><b>Charlie Farley <\/b><b>&amp; <\/b><b>Lorna M. Campbell<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The University of Edinburgh\u2019s OER Service is based within information Services and provides staff and students with practical advice and guidance on creating, finding and using open educational resources.\u00a0 Charlie Farley and Lorna Campbell run a wide range of workshops and initiatives within the University and beyond, and also maintain Open.Ed which provides a one stop shop to access open educational resources produced by staff and students across the university.\u00a0 The University does not have a single OER Repository, instead we have multiple repositories across the institution for different kinds of content and we believe in sharing our open resources where ever they will be found most easily, e.g. Media Hopper Create, flickr, Vimeo, Sketchfab, TES, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OER Mission, Vision and Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_783\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-783\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-783\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture1.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Centre for Research Collections, <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/snkn7o\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/snkn7o<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide the highest quality learning and teaching environment for the greater wellbeing of our students<\/li>\n<li>Make a significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world.<\/li>\n<li>OER Vision draws on history of the Edinburgh Settlement, excellent education and research collections, traditions of the Enlightenment.<\/li>\n<li>OER Policy encourages staff and students to use, create and publish OERs to enhance the quality of the student experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Edinburgh we believe that open education is strongly in line with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/about\/mission-governance\/mission\">institutional mission<\/a> to provide the highest quality learning and teaching environment for the greater wellbeing of our students, and to make a significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world, promoting health and economic and cultural wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>Our vision for OER builds on our excellent education and research collections, traditions of the Scottish Enlightenment and the university\u2019s civic mission.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to the OER Service, this vision is backed up by our OER Policy which encourages both staff and students to engage with the use and creation of OER and open knowledge, to enhance the quality of the student experience while at the same time making a significant contribution to the cultural and digital commons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OER for Digital Skills <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OER can help to develop digital skills for both staff and students.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.23things.ed.ac.uk\/\"> 23 Things for Digital Knowledge<\/a> is an award winning, open online course, adapted from an open course developed by the University of Oxford.\u00a0 23 Things is designed to encourage\u00a0digital literacy by exposing learners to a wide range of digital tools for personal and professional development. Learners spend a little time each week, building up and expanding their digital skills and are encouraged to share their experiences with others.\u00a0 All course content and materials are licensed under a\u00a0CC BY licence and the University actively encourages others to take and adapt the course. The course has already been used by many individuals and organisations outwith Edinburgh and it has recently been adapted for use by the Scottish Social Services Council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OER for Equality and Diversity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OER can make a significant contribution to diversifying the curriculum.\u00a0 A\u00a0number of studies, including the National LGBT Survey released by the Government today, have shown that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual health is not well-covered in Medical curricula, however knowledge of LGBT health and of the sensitivities needed to treat LGBT patients are valuable skills for qualifying doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Using materials from the commons, a project at the University of Edinburgh, <a href=\"http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/lgbt-healthcare-101\/\">LGBT+ Healthcare 101<\/a>, sought to address the lack of teaching on LGBT health within the curriculum through OER.\u00a0 The project remixed and repurposed resources originally created by Case Western Reserve University, and then contributed these resources back to the commons as CC BY licensed OER.\u00a0 New open resources including digital stories recorded from patient interviews, and resources for Secondary School children of all ages, were also created and released as CC BY OER.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OER for Knowledge Exchange <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open access makes research outputs freely accessible to all. It allows research to be disseminated quickly and widely, the research process to operate more efficiently, and has the potential to increase use and understanding of research by the wider public.\u00a0 However it is not always easy for those outwith academia to know how to access these outputs, even though they are freely and openly available. \u00a0\u00a0In order to address this issue, we\u2019ve created a series of open educational resources in the form of video interviews and case studies called <a href=\"https:\/\/openinnovation.is.ed.ac.uk\/\">Innovating with Open Knowledge<\/a>.\u00a0 These resources are aimed at creative individuals, private researchers, and entrepreneurs to provide guidance on how to find and access the open outputs of Higher Education.\u00a0 The resources focus on developing digital and data literacy skills and feature case study interviews with creative individuals and entrepreneurs engaging with the University of Edinburgh\u2019s world class research outputs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OER and Co-creation<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe strongly in engaging both staff and students in the co-creation of open education and one hugely successful example of this is the School of Geosciences Outreach and Engagement course.\u00a0 Over two semesters, students develop an outreach project that communicates an element of GeoSciences outside the university community.\u00a0 Students work with schools, museums, and community groups to create a wide range of resources for science engagement. Students gain experience of science outreach, public engagement, and knowledge transfer while working in new environments and developing transferable skills to enhance employability.\u00a0 A key element of the course is to develop reusable resources which are then repurposed by our Open Content Curation Interns to create OER that are then shared online through Open.Ed and TES where they could be found and reused by other teachers and learners.<\/p>\n<p>e.g. The Sea-Level Story, <a href=\"http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/the-sea-level-story-geoscience\/\">http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/the-sea-level-story-geoscience<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/the-sea-level-story-geoscience\/\">\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Open Content Curation Student Interns<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open Content Curation student interns play an important role in OER creation at the University.\u00a0 These fully-paid interns help to repurpose and share resources created by staff and other students while at the same time developing their own digital literacy skills. We\u2019re now in the third year of this internship and the feedback we\u2019ve received from the students has been nothing short of inspiring. This is Tomas Sanders who worked as our Open Content Curation Intern last year, and who then went on to run a successful Wikipedia editathon for Black History Month with the student History Society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Slide7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-784 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Slide7-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Slide7-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Slide7-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Slide7-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Slide7.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OER for Playful Learning <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The OER Service also runs a wide range of events that develop playful and creative strategies for finding and reusing open licensed content. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/oer-game-jams\/\">Board Game Jam<\/a> is a popular workshop that leads groups through creating, licensing, and sharing an OER board game using digitised images from the University collections. \u00a0It\u2019s a fun and creative way to teach copyright and open licensing by stealth.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/gif-it-up-create-your-own-gifs\/\">GifItUp<\/a> is another workshop that provides an introduction to creating\u00a0GIFs using free and open tools and openly licensed and public domain images.\u00a0 It teaches colleagues how to find and use open licensed public heritage content and encourages discussion of the ethical responsibilities we as creators have towards those materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OER for Creativity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.ed.ac.uk\/esearch\/search?keyword=eric%20lucey\">Eric Lucey<\/a> was a pioneering biologist and film maker at the University of Edinburgh whose film collection from the 1950s and 60s has now been made available under open license by University\u2019s Centre for Research Collections. With help and guidance from the OER Service on open licensing and content reuse, students from Edinburgh College of Art and the Edinburgh Film Society have created film poems from the Lucey collection for the Magma Poetry journal. \u00a0And we\u2019ve also released open film snippets from our MOOC content that can be reused in a wide range of creative contexts.<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few examples of how the OER Services encourages staff and students at the University of Edinburgh to engage with and contribute to a wide range of open content collections, while enhancing their own digital skills and contributing resources back to the digital commons.\u00a0 For more information about the OER Service you can visit <a href=\"http:\/\/open.ed.ac.uk\/\">Open.Ed here<\/a>, or contact Lorna or Charlie via the details below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lorna M. Campbell<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk\">lorna.m.campbell@ed.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>@LornaMCampbell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Farley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:stephanie.farley@ed.ac.uk\">stephanie.farley@ed.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>@SFarley_Charlie<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_788\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-788\" class=\"wp-image-788 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture2-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture2-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture2-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture2-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/08\/Picture2.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board Game Jam, CC BY-SA 2.0 Open.Ed, <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/R53nGm\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/R53nGm<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following post was co-written by Stephanie &#8216;Charlie&#8217; Farley and Lorna Campbell who work at the University of Edinburgh&#8217;s Open Education Resources (OER) Service. 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