not just for Christmas

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Melissa Highton

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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seek and ye shall find

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Melissa Highton

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

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Melissa Highton

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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the idea of a university

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Melissa Highton

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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predictive text

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Melissa Highton

What we wrote in March 2009: OpenSpires will release hundreds of hours of Oxford digital learning content as Open Content Resources (OER) in appropriate ways via appropriate online platforms. The project is expected to have global impact, as the resources … Continue reading →

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keep on running

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Melissa Highton

Speaking of authorship, I was  lucky this year in having an overview steer of the very successful RunCoCo project which provided a series of training events for organisations interested in harnessing the power of the Internet to run their own … Continue reading →

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Consider authority

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Melissa Highton

For successful OER consider authorship and authority and make yourself discoverable.  Although  the  perceived advantage of OER is that  it can be used in any context, information of attribution is key to a users ability to evaluate  the content.  Oxford research indicates … Continue reading →

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my year as a SCORE Fellow

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Melissa Highton

As part of my SCORE Fellowship project I am to display a poster. Here’s one I prepared earlier. My project explored the relationship between OER and the research-teaching nexus by looking closely at how academic staff at research universities are supported in … Continue reading →

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transformations -it’s all about the sharing

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Melissa Highton

In working with our partners on the OER Cascade  Ripple project  we thought carefully about how others could learn from our mistakes and use our experience as a resource in a move towards organisational change. Our partners have commented on this … Continue reading →

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mass digitisation

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Melissa Highton

The nice people at the JISC have just released  another funding call for OER and mass digitisation projects. Which is the perfect excuse for me to use this image I like very much from JJ collection. Difficult to predict what sort … Continue reading →

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