Wikipedia is the 5th most visited website in the world and is an important first stop when looking up any topic – it is truly an incredible resource. But its power can be dangerous. It lacks diversity both in its editorship and its articles. This means that its systemic biases can have a large impact on …

As part of my work as a Board member of the Apereo Foundation, we’ve been working on new content to more clearly make the case for adopting open source, particularly in education. Alongside that we’ve been working on developing open source health measu…

Addressing the challenges of digital and information literacy, digital scholarship and open knowledge at the University of Edinburgh Summary The University of Edinburgh is the first university in the UK to appoint a university-wide Wikimedian in Residence as part of its institutional strategy to develop information and digital literacy skills for staff and students, and …

We ran our ‘Get Blogging’ event yesterday during the Festival of Creative Learning Week.  It was a really fun event and we packed loads in. We’ve got a proper blog post coming about the event soon.  In the meantime, I promised the attendees I’d share our PowerPoint slides with them …

As part of the University of Edinburgh’s Festival of Creative Learning myself, Stewart Cromar and Marcello Crolla decided to host a Hackathon on chatbots. The premise of the hackathon wasn’t to delve into the technology and build a new skynet. It was too try and make the technology more accessible by removing the technology and […]

To start with some apologies, I’ve been writing this blog post for about 3 months.   This is not how I’d recommend you blog! So, I was thinking about our service wearing my old School hat.  That is, the perspective I would have had in my previous job as the School …

Help us to create an Adult Colouring Book and do some colouring too by coming to our Festival of Creative Learning workshop.

Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of #ImmodestWomen By Siobhan O’Connor, Dr. Alice White, Dr. Sara Thomas and Ewan McAndrew. Wikipedia, the free, online, multilingual encyclopaedia is building the largest open knowledge resource in human history. Now aged eighteen years old, its English language version receives over 500 million views …

So, AI in education, what’s going on or should I say what’s not going on? AI has transformed from something associated with science fiction to everyday fact (e.g. smart phones camera subject detection to banking apps).  AI is an umbrella term encompassing numerous technologies and concepts (e.g. machine learning, natural language understanding, robotics etc) these technologies […]

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