Continuing our research led focus for Open Education Week ’26, this collection highlights excellent research informed OERs for Further Education, Higher Education, and continuous professional development students and learners. Many of these open resources were created as part of the University’s free short online courses.
Our first collection for Open Education Week 26 highlights excellent OERs for Primary and Secondary level learners created using research undertaken by University of Edinburgh staff and postgraduate student researchers. Many of these resources include information about the researchers involved in their co-creation to help engage young learners with the real world of research.
On Thursday, 26 February 2026, the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Research Services welcomed colleagues from across disciplines to the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) for the Second Annual Digital Research Conference—a day that made one thing clear: digital research is no longer a niche specialism, but the connective tissue running through modern scholarship. From the moment […]
This February, Digital Safety Officer, Ricarda, teamed up with Campus Security and Information Security colleagues to run scams and fraud awareness stalls for international students. We tied the stalls in with Lunar New Year due to a high number of scams currently directly targeting Chinese students in the UK. As it’s the year of the fire horse, the team couldn’t […]
Open Education Week is fast approaching! The international celebration of all things open is taking place on 2 – 6 March, online and at schools, colleges and universities across the globe. The theme this year is exploring the town square for open education and if you head over to the Open Education Week website you […]
It has now been eight months since I began my internship with the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services Group. What started as a 12-week summer internship has become my part-time job alongside my studies and has allowed me to learn new skills, meet new friends, and seize so many new opportunities! With the time fast approaching for the next generation of summer […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking lately, which is not something I ever thought I’d write. Not in a formal way. More in a quiet, slightly uneasy way that shows up when I’m halfway through a task and realise I’ve reached for ELM almost automatically. Sometimes that feels helpful. Sometimes it makes me pause […]
It’s Safer Internet Day and the theme in 2026 is ‘Smart tech, safe choices – Exploring the safe and responsible use of AI’. Over the coming days, we will publish tips and info on how to recognise Artificial Intelligence (AI) online and use it responsibly. But first, let’s review the basics of keeping yourself safe […]
The internet is a great place to keep in touch with others. Whether you exchange thoughts with strangers about your favourite season finale on social media, play and chat while at home during a global pandemic, or like in my case, get to talk to friends and family living in another country – technology enables our need to socialise. However, the way we form connections online, and the tech we use to do so, also comes […]
Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Read more about Wikipedia’s 25 year history, covering its early days with a ‘then and now'(and what lies ahead), at the link below: https://wikipedia25.org/en At 25 years old it may be the olddddd man of the old Internet but Wikipedia still remains the largest reference work on the Internet and is now a […]
