Don’t call it OER. Call it Creative Commons.

Having been involved in OER projects for two years I can confidently say that no-one outside an OER project uses or understands that term. Use it when you are in the room with someone from JISC, but if you want … Continue reading

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crime and creativity

Regular readers of this blog, if there are any, will know of my enthusiasm for  The John Johnson Collection of Digitised Printed Ephemera.   In December we submitted a bid to JISC from LTG to work with ProQuest, the Bodleian Library … Continue reading

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flat out

The John Johnson Collection now includes visual puzzles, window pictures, hold-to-light works, celluloid transparencies, lift-the-flap pictures, and stand-up cutout figures. This fascinating and complex body of material has been brought to life by experts at the Bodleian Library’s Photographic Studio … Continue reading

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written in Oxford

As a girl with a new interest in a variety of  creative writing -on top of my ongoing interest in pedagogy ( described below)- I also managed to squeeze in two new writers’ events this week. Wednesday night  saw the … Continue reading

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bloody murder

 While discussing stakeholders and stakeburners over steaks at Quod on Friday it struck me that the JISC ‘mapping crime’ project will create a cracking resource for the great Oxford tradition of crime writing. Looking for a report of a bizarre crime … Continue reading

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VM for rent

During  discussions about open educational materials (OER) we sometimes draw on a continuum of openness. All rights reverved at one end and  non-attribution share alike at the other. At the BPP presentation last week I learned that to protect their … Continue reading

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‘we define academic freedom differently’.

Okay, even I didn’t expect to find an image for ‘plagiarism‘.  Having been involved recently in discussions about policy for Turnitin use and online submission policy at Oxford, I was interested to hear the same issue come up at a … Continue reading

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a lady composed of images

  A couple people have asked me where I get the images I use in my blog. Recently they have mostly been from the Oxford’s John Johnson Collection of Digitised Printed Ephemera (electronic resource). For a connoisseur of unusual images it’s … Continue reading

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for a good and sweet new year

The story shofar:  an internal audit report of IT governance at Oxford has recommended a reshuffle of departments.  Don’t they always? A sense of urgency has been created as per standard Kotter-style change management.  At sunset today a new year … Continue reading

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Listening for impact

When I present around the place about Oxford’s podcasting projects I am often asked:  “How are the podcasts being used, and by whom? For teaching, learning or research? On campus or off?”  With these questions in mind LTG successfully bid to JISC … Continue reading

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