As part of our Open Education Week activities, Charlie caught up with Leam Howe, about the SatSchool Earth Observation outreach programme. Leam is one of the University of Edinburgh PhD Researchers involved in running the SatSchool programme.  SatSchool create educational resources and take them out to schools in order as part of education outreach on worldwide geography, ecosystems, climate and the impacts of human activity through satellite observation, and using materials created by current researchers.

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.

2025 was an interesting year for the OER Service, especially with the range of new queries that arose from increased use of Generative AI tools across numerous new technologies, tools and services.

If you’re anything like me, as the dark days bed in I start to look for treats and sparkles of all kinds to brighten up the winter days and nights. One of my favourite places to explore this time of year are the recipe sections on Wikibooks. Wikibooks is one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone (including you) can edit.

This video is a recording of the showcase event ‘AI in Scottish Schools A Showcase of Resources for Primary & […]

Black History Month UK is an annual event that celebrates the achievements of black Britons and people of colour throughout history.
In order to highlight this history we’ve curated a selection of open educational resources created by our staff and students on Black History in the UK.

Launched during Global Goals Week in September, ‘SDGs: Stories of impact’ is an exploratory publication from University and tells stories of some of the University’s meaningful contributions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past five years.

This tutorial video is aimed for those who are new to the R programming language, the goal is to build a […]

The OER Service has received a few enquiries specifically regarding using the Canva graphic design platform’s new Generative AI features, […]