LTG Events

Dr Jonathan P. San Diego (King’s College London)

Tuesday 7th of December, 17:00 – 18:30, OUCS

Dr. Jonathan P. San Diego currently holds the post of Senior Research Officer with the hapTEL project based at King’s College London. His main research interest involves examining how representations influence cognition, reasoning and learning; which means investigating how different teaching and learning technologies affect students’ understanding and knowledge. He is investigating the extent with which multimodal interfaces such as haptics (sense of touch), head-movement tracking, 3D stereovision, eye-tracking, etc. can influence and enhance learning. He is applying innovative methods and approaches from his previous research which examined how interactions with technology-enhanced learning representations can support strategies in teaching, learning and reasoning. This included developing and improving techniques for integrating and analysing observation digital-data (e.g. from software analytics, eye-tracking, digital videos, screen capture, digital sketches, etc.).

Dr. San Diego’s current work to date has involved designing, developing and evaluating haptic virtual dental systems to fit within the dental undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. The educational evaluation included comparing both TEL and traditional learning systems. The large scale quantitative study, within his involvement on the current 4-year research work, has augmented his skills in conducting quasi-experimental designs; whilst the small scale qualitative study has sustained his interest in exploring the possibility of modelling strategies that dental students, tutors, and clinicians use in solving a variety of clinical teaching challenges using traditional and TEL systems.

Oxford University Computing Services, Evenlode Seminar Room

All are welcome to these events. To book a seat or for further information please contact me at melanie.tritz@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Dr Neil Morris (University of Leeds)

Tuesday 16th November, 17:00 – 18:30, OUCS

In this session Neil will present evidence for the academic value of blended learning approaches from a number of studies conducted over the past five years.  He will describe a research study conducted to examine the educational value of podcasts and mobile assessment.  The study, conducted using final year undergraduate students separated into control and trial groups, showed that providing students with short lecture podcasts accompanied by self-assessments answered using text messages on a mobile telephone enhanced academic performance.  His second case study  describes research designed to measure the effectiveness of providing students with online video lectures, packaged into short study topics with self-assessment opportunities.  The results of this longitudinal study showed that students perform significantly better on examination questions supported by online blended learning resources. 

Neil is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology, University of Leeds. He is interested in a wide range of neuroscience related research areas, most of his research is conducted using neuroanatomical and electrophysiological techniques. He is also involved with pedagogic research and was Director of Learning and Leaching for the Faculty of Bioscience during the recent VLE roll out at Leeds. 

Oxford University Computing Services, Evenlode Seminar Room

All are welcome to these events. To book a seat or for further information please contact me at melanie.tritz@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Candidates for Masters in E-learning, Dept. of Education Studies.
9th of November  17:00 – 18:30, OUCS

 During this session students of the Oxford University Masters in E-learning courses will present  and reflect upon their personal learning environments as they perceive them.  Personal learning environments combine the full range of interconnected digital ( or other wise) tools used for study along with media practices and study approaches.  This session offers an opportunity for interested academic colleagues,  tutors and learning technologists to gain insight into students’ current digital literacy practices.  In describing and visualising their PLE students  gain understanding of how the  online environment, sources of information and social tools they use are embedded in their experience and  reflect, with feedback and discussion,  on strategies for how these might be improved to support learning. 

All are welcome to these events. To book a seat or for further information please contact me at melanie.tritz@oucs.ox.ac.uk