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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
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
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
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
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
seek and ye shall find
Today we launched the new podcasts.ox.ac.uk page. Ever wondered what podcasts are available from your college? Searching for someone particular? Guessing how much content from Oxford is released under a CC licence? Revising for an exam? No longer must you … Continue reading
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values and ethics
If we suggest and celebrate the fact that colleagues choose to produce OER because of their own ethical stance or personal values, can we assume that resistance to engaging with other learning technology might equally be values based? Oxford … Continue reading
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Tagged consumerism, laggards, luddites, markets
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the idea of a university
This evening I spoke in a series of Oxford seminars convened by the Assessor entitled ‘Beyond Consumerism? Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century University’. I am a fan of events with ‘beyond’ in the title as you may know. … Continue reading
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