2023 marks the 30th year of ALT (Association for Learning Technology) and this year’s conference themes were: Leading People in a time of complexity; Diversity and Inclusion; Sustainability and Social Justice; and Emerging technologies and behaviors, highlighting a clear interest in a deeper consideration of edtech’s potential impact, rather than just its utility.  With so […]

I regret to say that my internship is now coming to an end. It is incredibly bitter-sweet, and I am […]

Hello again! It is hard to imagine that it’s almost two full months since I started my first-ever internship, but […]

Here we are, past the halfway point. Time really does fly! It’s been weird, work has very quickly become a […]

How to respond to the affordances and challenges of generative AI is a pressing issue that many learning technologists and open education practitioners are grappling with right now and I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about the interface between AI, large language models and the Commons for some time. This isn’t that post.  […]

Hello, My name is August, and I have now joined Mayu as the other Open Content Curator Intern you will […]

Hello! I am Mayu, one of two Open Content Curator Interns working for the OER Service at the University of […]

We’ve had an Accessible and Inclusive Learning Policy at Edinburgh since 2013.  It was radical at the time, particularly in allowing students to audio record their teaching, but was looking rather dated even before the online pivot in 2020.  In the context of an ongoing Curriculum Transformation project, how might we change it? I’ve been […]

The Online Course Production Service, with support from the OER Service, has received a Social Responsibility and Sustainability Changemaker Award […]

I’m a bit late with this OER23 reflection, it’s taken me a couple of weeks to catch up with myself and to let some of the ideas generated by the conference percolate.   It was fabulous to see the OER Conference returning to Scotland for the fist time since we hosted it at the University of […]