Practical approaches to freeing university material stockpiles
Open Educational Resources bring lots of benefits, but how can we implement them in practice? There is no 1 tool that ticks all the boxes for everyone, but we have produced several documents to help HE staff make decisions about what to use in their context.
I presented findings from our recent project “Set Them Free! Open Publishing of INF1B Course Materials” at the Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference. In the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics case, we have begun development of an open courseware site using Drupal, which is now available at https://opencourse.inf.ed.ac.uk/.
Hi 👋😊! I’m Vidminas (most people call me Vid), a postdoc on the CHAILD project splitting time between the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and the Institute of Education, University College London.
I am interested in technology and education, and more specifically researching and developing technologies that empower people. The current CHAILD project focus is about defining and designing for agency in children and young people’s use of AI tools.
Before this, I did my PhD at the Institute of Language Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh. My then-supervisors are Professor Fiona McNeill and Professor Judy Robertson. The project was about better understanding and designing tools to help teachers search for educational resources.
I am always keen to chat about teaching and learning, human-computer interaction, participatory research, and designing applications for good, feel free to get in touch!