Beyond Collections: Crowdsourcing for public engagement.
A free one-day conference held at OUCS, University of Oxford on 26th May 2011
Our ‘Beyond’ conference this year will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. It will be hosted by the RunCoco project and sponsored by JISC . The conference will be of interest to learning technologists, librarians, museums, community groups, archivists and researchers.We welcome colleagues who are involved in digital and community collection projects and our friends and contributors to LTG’s annual ‘Shock and beyond’ events. If you are involved in crowdsourcing, collections or digital projects you are invited to attend this event which will celebrate the joys and challenges of community collections. Please note, this year’s ‘Beyond’ conference is smaller than previous years’ so book your place asap.
Tag your blog posts, tweets, and photos of the Beyond Conference #beyond2011
Tuesday 29th March at 5-6pm
Jane O’Neill, Senior Staff Development Officer, University of Leeds.
Jane is the senior learning technologist in the Staff and Departmental Development Unit at University of Leeds and has variously looked after Bodington and Blackboard VLEs , Qmark Perception, elgg, and Turnitin, Leeds podcasting and LUTube.
In this presentation she will describe how Leeds has developed institutional strategies for use of Turnitin, plagiarism deterrence, electronic submission, anonymous submission, Grademark and Peermark. She will also highlight how quiz and testing software can be used for feedback to support thinking and academic writing through the use of different question types, randomisation, re-use and questionbanks.
Thu 17 Feb 12:30-15:30
Do you have an on-line presence? You almost certainly do – even if you thought not! This byte-size session will describe what is meant by an on-line presence. It will also briefly outline how an on-line presence can benefit your research, teaching and career and how you should start to think about the best way to manage it.
Using images in teaching and learning
Thu 17 Feb 14:00-16:00
No charge
The course examines two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University– ARTstor and Bridgeman Education — geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science and medicine, and social sciences. Viewing, presenting and managing images are also covered.
Professor Tim Unwin, Royal Holloway University of London.
Tuesday 15th of February 17:00 – 18:00, OUCS
Sustainable Development, or development that balances economic, social, and environmental aspects, is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be powerful tools in helping to achieve sustainable development. ICT4D is an area of interdisciplinary study involving research and practitioners in Geography, Management, Computer Science, Urban Development and Earth Sciences. It takes a global perspective on sustainable development and the role of ICTs.To Book: http://tinyurl.com/timunwintalk
Friday 11 Feb 2011 08:30-09:30
New members of Oxford University staff are warmly invited to join us for breakfast at the Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road. Over croissants and coffee, we will introduce you to the many important services at OUCS that are available to help you with your work or research.
Dr. Robin Hill
1st February, 2011 – 5:00 – 6:00, Evenlode Seminar Room, OUCS
Using an interdisciplinary sophomore course as an example, Dr. Hill will present seven different online scenarios that an instructor might select to enhance classroom teaching. They range from the simple, providing a repository of materials, to the complex, partitioning into sections with teaching assistants to make assessment effective and efficient. These options represent just one way, driven by pragmatics, to analyze online courses into types or templates; suggestions for others are invited.
To book: http://tinyurl.com/7scenarios
Research information management: Organising humanities material
Monday 31 January 14:00-17:00
Keeping track of all the information used in the course of a research project can be time consuming, difficult, or just plain dull. This course aims to help you identify the way of organising material that works best for you, and to outline some strategies for doing this as painlessly as possible.
Research information management: Tools for humanities
Monday 28 February 14:00-17:00
Keeping research material well organised can often be time consuming and tedious. Whether you work chiefly with texts, images, or structured data, this course will introduce some software and online tools to make the process easier and more efficient.
Professor Tim Unwin, Royal Holloway University of London.
Tuesday 15th of February 17:00 – 18:00, OUCS
Sustainable Development, or development that balances economic, social, and environmental aspects, is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be powerful tools in helping to achieve sustainable development. ICT4D is an area of interdisciplinary study involving research and practitioners in Geography, Management, Computer Science, Urban Development and Earth Sciences. It takes a global perspective on sustainable development and the role of ICTs.
Tim Unwin is Professor of Geography and UNESCO Chair in ICT4D. He is also Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. In 2007-2008 he was Director and then Senior Advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Partnerships for Education programme with UNESCO. From 2001-2004 he led the UK Prime Minister’s Imfundo initiative based in the Department for International Development, creating partnerships to deliver ICT-based educational initiatives in Africa. Since returning to Royal Holloway, University of London, he has created an ICT4D Collective, which undertakes research, teaching and consultancy in the field of Information and Communication Technologies for Development. His other research interests include the interface between ethics and geography, contemporary rural change in Europe, and the historical geography of viticulture and the wine trade.
Please come along to find out more about this area of work, the work of the Collective and Tim’s reflections on the role of HE, the private sector and learning technology practice.
To Book: http://tinyurl.com/timunwintalk
Wednesday 12th January
LTG are offering two new agent-beased modelling courses this term. Agent-based modelling plays an important role in ecology, climate change, collective animal behaviour, economics, sociology, and many other sciences. This session is about modelling concepts and design principles. Come along to find out how modelling can help you in your research and teaching.
