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The Society for Nautical Research
Last week I was honoured to chair the Publications Committee of the Society of Nautical Research at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. I was appointed to replace the interim chair, Admiral Sir...
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Mainstreaming Digital Education at #LTT15
Carol Blackwood, Digimap for Schools team. Picture by Anne Robertson Earlier this week I attended the Holyrood Connect Learning Through Technology Conference in Glasgow as a guest of the Digimap for...
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Rise again
A song for the day, courtesy of my good colleague Adam Cooper… (Very appropriate that this it the 100th post on this blog!)
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OER16: Open Culture
Less than a month after the fabulous OER15 conference in Cardiff and we’re already thinking ahead to next year’s OER16 event which will be taking place in Scotland for the first time in the...
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Day of Digital Ideas 2015
Digital humanities is an area that I’ve been interested in for a long time but which I haven’t had much opportunity to engage with, so earlier this week I was really excited to be able to go along to...
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Open Silos? Open data and OER
“Open silos” might seem like a contradiction in terms, but this was one of the themes that emerged during last week’s Open Knowledge Open Education Working Group call which focused on Open Data as...
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All Change!
A couple of weeks ago, along with many of my colleagues, my post with Cetis at the University of Bolton came to an end following an institutional review. I’ve been working for Cetis in one capacity or...
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Retire and Refresh: Jisc, Jorum and Open Education
Yesterday Jisc announced its intention to retire Jorum in September 2016 and “refresh its open educational resources offer”. I’ve been involved with Jorum, in one capacity or another, since 2002 when...
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Open Education Policy – blocked pipelines and infinite loops
Doesn’t time fly? It’s almost a fortnight since I joined colleagues at what has now become an annual event in the Scottish education technology calendar; the ALT Scotland one day conference. One of...
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Can open stop the future?
Last week Catherine Cronin brought Alice Marwick’s review of Nathaniel Tkacz’s Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, to my attention and it’s left me with a lot of food for thought. I haven’t had a...
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A new string for my bow: OER Liaison – Open Scotland
CC BY Lorna M. Campbell (Cross posted to openscot.net) I’m very pleased to have added a new string to my bow! As of the beginning of this month I will be working one day a week as OER Liaison – Open...
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ALTC twitter take over!
Tomorrow I’ll be heading off to Manchester where I’ll be attending the ALT Conference for the first time in several years. Or rather what I should say is that this is the first time for a while that...
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ALT Community Call – come and talk to me!
Tomorrow I’ll be taking part in the first ALT-C ‘Community Call’ where I’ll be in conversation with ALT’s Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer, Martin Hawksey. Among other things, I’ll...
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OER16 Submissions Open
I’m delighted to announce that OER16 Open Culture is now accepting submissions for the conference which will take place at the University of Edinburgh on the 19th and 20th April 2016. The call for...
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Wikimedia opportunities and events at the University of Edinburgh
[Cross posted from Open Scotland] The University of Edinburgh recently became the first Higher Education institution in Scotland to advertise for a Wikimedian in Residence. The post will be based...
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The Challenge of OER Sustainability
Sustaining the outputs of projects and programmes beyond their initial phase of funding is a weel kent problem but it is one that we still struggle to solve. Back in 2009 when Cetis were working with...
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Ada Lovelace Day at the University of Edinburgh
Yesterday I was lucky enough to participate in the first Ada Lovelace Day event at the University of Edinburgh. The event, which was attended by a wide range of staff and students from across the...
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OER16 Submissions Open
I’m delighted to announce that OER16 Open Culture is now accepting submissions for the conference which will take place at the University of Edinburgh on the 19th and 20th April 2016. The call for...
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Wikimedia opportunities and events at the University of Edinburgh
[Cross posted from Open Scotland] The University of Edinburgh recently became the first Higher Education institution in Scotland to advertise for a Wikimedian in Residence. The post will be based...
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The Challenge of OER Sustainability
Sustaining the outputs of projects and programmes beyond their initial phase of funding is a weel kent problem but it is one that we still struggle to solve. Back in 2009 when Cetis were working with...
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