After presenting Strategic support for OER at The University of Edinburgh at the UKSG OER Seminar in 2025, I was keen to attend the 2026 seminar this year purely as an attendee to learn more about what other institutions are currently focusing on in the world of Open Education Resources (OER). I’d noticed in the … Continue reading Overview and reflections on the UKSG OER Seminar 2026
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ICEPOPS 2019 – Highlights
It's been a month of fantastic conferences and the gathering of excellent ideas and practices so I'm going to do my best to make note of some of the highlights from each. There was a lot to take in at ICEPOPS 2019, from music copyright, to literacy models, and my favourite section was the World … Continue reading ICEPOPS 2019 – Highlights
ICEPOPS 2019 – My first Keynote
I attended the first ICEPOPS conference in 2018 and was a huge fan, so when they got in touch to say that they wanted to hold the 2nd ever ICEPOPS conference in Edinburgh for 2019, AND that they'd like me to give a keynote presentation. Gosh. I was over the moon. Especially since this was … Continue reading ICEPOPS 2019 – My first Keynote
OER licensing before you publish
How Sara Haenzi, a neuroscience PhD student, tackled copyright in her academic paper when she realised the images she was using were under copyright.
OER17 – Board Game Jam: playful engagement and using OER to create OER
Having run many Board Game Jams over the past year, it was great to be able to bring the 1hr version to the OER17 conference in London. Appropriately for the conference theme, The Politics of Open, each of the games created in this session had a political aspect.
Playfulness and Literacies 