free love

 Some may say that Valentine’s Day is commercial swindle designed to make you pay over the odds for cards and flowers.  At LTG we see it as an opportunity to give away fabulous love-based gifts for free. We have been tweeting … Continue reading

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active service

Yet another Open Educational Resource (OER)  project winning success for LTG: The announcement from JISC: JISC is delighted to announce that the University of Oxford has won the grant for the ‘JISC World War One (WW1) Open Educational Resources (OER)’ project. … Continue reading

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fair access fair

Mostly, in LTG, we help colleagues to make their materials more open. Sometimes, we help  to keep them more closed. WebLearn now has a new security option, requiring two- factor authentication for secure areas.  Secure areas are used for such  high … Continue reading

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do you have a digital experience?

Care to tell us about it? I invite you to shape the future at Oxford by contributing your thoughts via a handy online survey. Survey for students: http://tinyurl.com/digestudent Survey for staff: http://tinyurl.com/digestaff  The project is investigating students’ use of digital technologies in … Continue reading

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get ahead

ITLP , the LTG teaching and training team, extensively survey course participants for feedback, and have done so for over five years. We get a high response rate (often in excess of 60%), with genuine, rich feedback in the survey … Continue reading

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in schools

To confound the outsider, not only is there a college called ‘University’, but also a building called ‘Schools’.  When I first arrived at Oxford I was impressed  how many colleagues seemed to be having meetings  ‘all day in schools’. So much … Continue reading

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content curator

During December I had the very pleasant task of curating a collection of Oxford OER. To sit behind each door of the OUCS OpenAdvent calendar I chose  items from our several collections of unique content hosted at OUCS.  Content which spoke about giving, family,community, ethics and … Continue reading

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working in the media

2011 was another very good year for LTG media production. MPU  filmed and edited with 21 departments, 12 colleges, the museums and the libraries. We covered VIP visits including Michelle Obama and Ban Ki Moon. We video conferenced to over … Continue reading

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open publication

Making academic OER easy: Reflections on technology and openness at Oxford University Melissa H. Highton, Jill W. Fresen, Joanna Wild Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, Vol 15, No 2 (2011) Due to its stringent entry requirements, academic reputation and … Continue reading

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not just for Christmas

Open educational resources from Oxford University are published with Creative Commons licences so you can download them, keep them, enjoy them, share them and use them in your own teaching or research.  Each day of December until the 24th, we … Continue reading

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