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Open Education Team Biography
The Open Education Team at the University of Edinburgh is a virtual team within the Information Services Group, Learning, Teaching and Web Services Division and our role is to coordinate open education and open knowledge activities across the University.
The team is made up of Lorna M Campbell, OER Liaison - Open Scotland, Stuart Nicol, Learning Technology Team Manager, Stephanie (Charlie) Farley, OER Advisor, Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian-in-Residence, Jo Spiller, Head of Educational Design and Engagement, Eugenia Twomey, Student Engagement Officer, Anne-Marie Scott, Head of Digital Learning Applications & Media, Susan Greig, Learning Technology Advisor and Martin Tasker, Open Content Curation Intern.
Edinburgh’s Vision for OER builds on the history of the Edinburgh Settlement, excellent education and research collections, traditions of the enlightenment and the University’s civic mission. This vision is supported by the University’s OER Policy, which places open education at the heart of learning and teaching strategy. The Open Education Team undertakes a wide range of activities that support staff and students to engage with OER, and help the institution to mainstream digital education across the curriculum.
The OER Service run by Stuart Nicol and Stephanie (Charlie) Farley supports course teams, staff and students to develop digital literacies around OER. Stuart and Charlie run creative workshops that help colleagues achieve practical goals whilst learning about the value of OER and Creative Commons. They also contribute to the University’s new CMALT programme managed by Susan Greig.
Open.Ed is our one-stop-shop OER website, which provides access to ‘how to’ guides; OER collections; and blog feeds from OER practitioners. Martin Tasker, our Open Content intern, helps staff and students to publish collections that engage with the wider community.
The Open Education Team works closely with Wikimedia UK and includes a dedicated Wikimedian-in-Residence, Ewan McAndrew, who runs skills training events and editathons, along with Jo Spiller and Eugenia Twomey, to help encourage more women to become editors, and improve the coverage of Wikipedia articles about women.
The Team also supports Open Scotland a cross sector initiative, run by Lorna M. Campbell that aims to raise awareness of open education, and explore the potential of open policy and practice to benefit all sectors of Scottish education. Earlier this year Lorna was privileged to co-chair the OER16 conference. The theme of OER16 was Open Culture and the conference was a huge success attracting a wide range of international delegates.
Image credits: Tom Woodward, Ewan McAndrew, Anna Page, Charlie Farley, Tom Morris, and University of Edinburgh.
Open Education Team Biography
The Open Education Team at the University of Edinburgh is a virtual team within the Information Services Group, Learning, Teaching and Web Services Division and our role is to coordinate open education and open knowledge activities across the University.
The team is made up of Lorna M Campbell, OER Liaison - Open Scotland, Stuart Nicol, Learning Technology Team Manager, Stephanie (Charlie) Farley, OER Advisor, Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian-in-Residence, Jo Spiller, Head of Educational Design and Engagement, Eugenia Twomey, Student Engagement Officer, Anne-Marie Scott, Head of Digital Learning Applications & Media, Susan Greig, Learning Technology Advisor and Martin Tasker, Open Content Curation Intern.
Edinburgh’s Vision for OER builds on the history of the Edinburgh Settlement, excellent education and research collections, traditions of the enlightenment and the University’s civic mission. This vision is supported by the University’s OER Policy, which places open education at the heart of learning and teaching strategy. The Open Education Team undertakes a wide range of activities that support staff and students to engage with OER, and help the institution to mainstream digital education across the curriculum.
The OER Service run by Stuart Nicol and Stephanie (Charlie) Farley supports course teams, staff and students to develop digital literacies around OER. Stuart and Charlie run creative workshops that help colleagues achieve practical goals whilst learning about the value of OER and Creative Commons. They also contribute to the University’s new CMALT programme managed by Susan Greig.
Open.Ed is our one-stop-shop OER website, which provides access to ‘how to’ guides; OER collections; and blog feeds from OER practitioners. Martin Tasker, our Open Content intern, helps staff and students to publish collections that engage with the wider community.
The Open Education Team works closely with Wikimedia UK and includes a dedicated Wikimedian-in-Residence, Ewan McAndrew, who runs skills training events and editathons, along with Jo Spiller and Eugenia Twomey, to help encourage more women to become editors, and improve the coverage of Wikipedia articles about women.
The Team also supports Open Scotland a cross sector initiative, run by Lorna M. Campbell that aims to raise awareness of open education, and explore the potential of open policy and practice to benefit all sectors of Scottish education. Earlier this year Lorna was privileged to co-chair the OER16 conference. The theme of OER16 was Open Culture and the conference was a huge success attracting a wide range of international delegates.
Image credits: Tom Woodward, Ewan McAndrew, Anna Page, Charlie Farley, Tom Morris, and University of Edinburgh.
