Featured stories from LTG

Digital literacy is key to unlocking the value of online resources  LTG researchers have authored a report on the impact of Open Educational Resources. Findings highlight the need to support learners and academic staff alike in the referencing and the reuse of online resources. The report was commissioned by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and authored by by Liz Masterman and Joanna Wild.

Another successful year for ITLP courses, with around 3400 people, coming along to an average of 3 topics each, with one determined individual attending 65 different sessions. 2500  people attended our special events and inductions.

Courses in LTG help you to work smarter. Our AECDL course is popular every year.”Since taking the spreadsheets and word processing courses I am now able to use these programmes much more effectively in my work.”  Book now

Our annual red carpet event the Oxford University OxTALENT awards, celebrate creative use of technology for learning, teaching, impact and outreach. Read about the winners.

Anthony Geffen, winner of this year’s BAFTA  for ‘Specialist Factual’  and fellow of St Cross College, will speak  our OxTALENT awards event  on 28th June about his career  in digital media, from student of Geography to CEO of Atlantic Productions.

Our annual Beyond conference for 2011 was a huge success with presenters from a wide range if community collection projects and digitisation initiatives.

The number of  Oxford podcasts published into iTunesU continues to grow each month.   If you are wondering, as we do,  who is listening to them, it is possible to use the data supplied by Apple and the size of our logfiles to see  the  global spread of downloads.

Dr Jill Fresen’s paper presented at the LAMS conference (July 2010) and the EDEN conference (Budapest, Oct 2010) has been published in a special edition of the Teaching English with Technology Journal and will appear in the next LAMS book edited by James Dalziel et al.

The Learning Technologies Group was established by OUCS in April 2001 which makes us ten years old  this week. Our awards event this year will have a special birthday theme.