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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assistance needed

The Student Digital Experience (DIGE) workstream is a collaboration between the Learning Technologies Group (LTG) in Oxford University Computing Services and the Student Systems Replacement Programme (SSRP) in the Academic Administration Division. It runs from 1st October 2011 until 30th … Continue reading

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benefits for all

The Kellogg College Centre for Research into Assistive Learning Technologies The  Centre will focus on new developments in the application of digital technologies to support the learning and educational achievement of young people in school and higher education with a … Continue reading

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pursuit of ‘appiness

While controversy rages about appropriateness of the Official Guide, and the Bodleian’s King James Bible app is hailed by Stephen Fry on Twitter as ‘cowing lush and no mistake’, let’s see what you think of Mobile Oxford. Did you know … Continue reading

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