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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Photo Credit: Unsplash, Alex Hadba, CC0 In this post, Lauren Smith, Digital Support Librarian, outlines why open access resources are important in teaching, how lecturers can incorporate open access resources into their teaching materials, and how Library and University Collections can support them… What is open access? Feb 20, 2020

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How I learn is(n't) how you learn

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The Library – 5 pm. People are showing pictures of exam halls, of libraries and study halls and groups of people laughing and engaging with each other. Yval recently graduated from The University of Edinburgh with an MA in Geography and this post is part of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement theme: ‘Learning how others learn’.

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Explaining Copyright, Creative Commons and Open Access

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The question is: how do you determine whether an article is available Open Access (and not visible because of Library subscription) and, if it is published under a Creative Commons licence, how it can be (re-) used?!

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Adopting ‘Ultra’ Early: Leading the way with Learn

Teaching Matters Online Learning

This also includes a growing repository of openly licenced images taken from our library collections and pre-prepared to work as course and page headings. The Image Bank includes instructions on how to use and attribute these images correctly in your courses.

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Alleviating “first day” overload: Using Moodle to induct MSc students

Teaching Matters Academic Support

we offer library inductions and Information Services have IT inductions) so it makes sense to bring all of these together into a one-stop shop that students can easily access and refer back to. Each School, programme and department has their own information and signposting that contributes to a successful induction.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

They said that they’re not going to have any physical libraries. How does this structural deficit develop over such a long period without the state legislature saying this problem has been here and will only worsen? Let’s do something now because what is a university without a library? But does it make sense?

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Consent Collective TV: Carrying on the conversations

Teaching Matters Academic Support

What is Consent Collective TV Consent Collective TV is available to all staff and students at the University. It is a library of expertly curated content to support conversations and programmes of work around consent, sexual harassment, sexual harm, and the topics that relate to these society-wide conversations.