How to display Researcher Training on your website

As part of the JISC-funded OXCAP project, IT Services developed a portable JavaScript ‘widget’ that can be placed on any website and be made to display upcoming publicly visible Researcher Training opportunities – the list of courses can be filtered … Continue reading

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Lunchtime talk about OXCAP / SES: “Make: Graduate Training Hub” – 13 May

IT Services, with the 4 academic divisions, have developed a tool where graduate students and post-doctoral researcher can search for short courses and then request a place. This talk will give a walk-through of the tool, explain how data is … Continue reading

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Locating Researcher Training at Oxford University

The Researcher Training site in WebLearn has recently been expanded to advertise training opportunities provided by all the academic divisions and departments as well as central services such as the Bodleian Libraries, IT Services (ITLP), Careers Service, Language Centre and … Continue reading

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SES / OXCAP: When is a course ‘upcoming’?

As part of the OXCAP project we have had to devise an algorithm to decide when a course should be shown as ‘upcoming’ and when it should be marked as ‘previous’ in WebLearn’s SES tool. I thought it may be … Continue reading

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OXCAP – Oxford’s use of Share Point

Thanks to Alex Dutton for the helping with this post. The OXCAP project is about collecting and distributing information about graduate training opportunities at The University of Oxford. This information is stored in the University’s Open Data Service (ODS) and … Continue reading

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Data Flow in the OXCAP Project

We thought it may be useful to explain how data about graduate training makes its way from training providers into the SES tool in WebLearn. To do this we produced the diagram below. This shows the 3 different methods of … Continue reading

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OxCAP Project: All about XCRI

The OxCAP project is a JISC funded initiative which will provide an XCRI-CAP XML feed of graduate training opportunities at Oxford. When complete, this will mean that graduate students will have a ‘one-stop-shop’ (in WebLearn) of available training modules with … Continue reading

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Introducing the OxCAP Project

OxCAP is a JISC funded initiative to expose data (as an XML feed) about courses at Oxford. This project has the explicit backing of the PVC for Education and the Registrar. It is agreed that we concentrate on graduate training … Continue reading

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