WebLearn podcast is supremely popular!

Rev Dr James Robson ‘Supporting Tutorials: WebLearn’ is the most popular podcast on Oxford Podcasts this week and has had 60 likes on YouTube. Revd Dr James Robson is a Winner of the OxTALENT 2011 Award for ‘Best Use of … Continue reading

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Supporting Tutorials Using WebLearn

The tutorial system lies at the heart of Oxford’s educational experience, to further this practice LTG have produced a video case study entitled WebLearn: Supporting Tutorials. Supporting tutorial practices through the use of technology can enable both tutors and students … 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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Tweet tweet

If you’ve ever fancied using Twitter then this hand guide for Academics from LSE may be useful: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2011/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf

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WebLearn unaffected by recently announced changes to email service

The following note was sent by OUCS on 13 December 2011. WebLearn is unaffected as it uses oxmail to send messages and does not connect directly to smtp.ox.ac.uk. As we can’t rely on people not to give away their SSO … Continue reading

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Open All Hours – New University of Oxford Podcasts portal launched

At the start of November the OUCS Podcasting Service launched a new web portal to showcase nearly three thousand audio, video and eBook items freely available for download (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk). Replacing the previous directory, the improved site presents a rich set … Continue reading

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OUCS Advent Calendar

After a rush of frantic work by the elves in InfoDev and LTG we have put together a beautiful open advent calendar:  http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/openadvent/ Each day until Christmas a door will be unlocked to reveal a piece of open educational content. … Continue reading

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Accessing WebLearn via Mobile Oxford: Wed 16 Nov, 12:30-13:30 at OUCS

Did you know that you can have students complete a quick quiz during a lecture using their mobile phones and instantly see and discuss the results? Did you know that students can use their mobile phones to receive course announcements, … Continue reading

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Useful advice and free teaching and learning resources

Jill Fresen has drawn my attention to this useful resource: The Staff area of Association for Learning Development in HE website contains lots of resources in various formats (including a fridge magnet about academic writing(!). It has good layout within … Continue reading

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Xerte content authoring tool

The University of Nottingham’s Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials. Pat Lockley, worked in the Xerte team (who won the 2009 ALT Learning Technologists Team of … Continue reading

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