sustainable resources

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Melissa Highton

On Thursday, 12th May, as part of Fair Trade week, Kellogg College will host a Fair Trade dinner.  At 5.30pm before a wine reception and dinner, the College Seminar will take a wider look at issues of sustainability in the … Continue reading →

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Universities with walls and hedges

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Melissa Highton

On Monday I’ll be attending the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) event  ‘A Question of Boundaries: What Next for the ‘Edgeless University’?’ . Matthew Allen,  of Curtin University, is going to consider the practical opportunities and problems confronting academics and institutions of … Continue reading →

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reach out and touch somebody new

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Melissa Highton

In a survey of 50 Oxford  University academics who podcast open educational materials: 91% want their knowledge to go to the widest public audience possible; 55% want to help students worldwide understand their topic; 45% want to help the public understand … Continue reading →

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why choose WebLearn?

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Melissa Highton

I was asked last week to help a group at Oxford decide whether or not to use WebLearn. Taking as a starting point the assumption that you already want a web based learning platform, this is why you should choose … Continue reading →

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e-learning icons

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Melissa Highton

Another blast from the past today. A long time ago I commissioned a set of  40 e-learning icons, and occasionally I get requests for them from odd places.  That happened again today.  Not that I’m saying Georgia is odd.  Although, obviously it … Continue reading →

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What can your OER do for you?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Melissa Highton

 We recently held a Ripple OER ‘institutional strategies’ workshop in Oxford at Kellogg College. ‘In it to win it’ workshop: Institutional marketing strategy and policy for OER Thursday 3 February 2011 What is your OER doing for you?  Video: [mp4] … Continue reading →

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Don’t underestimate the power of PowerPoint.

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Melissa Highton

Any discussion of technology in classrooms, supporting student learning or content in VLEs always, always ends up in a discussion about PowerPoint. Everyone has opinions, and the bulletpoint is apparently the mortal enemy of learning. Lecturers and presenters are given … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Melissa Highton

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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For sustainability, build on solid ground.

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Melissa Highton

Hoping for success in our learning technology projects we align our activities to departmental and institutional strategies, and as part of the Oxford University community we look to bulid upon existing good practice. The OpenSpires project was part of the … Continue reading →

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Aim for success, not perfection.

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Melissa Highton

I am spending the day at the New Strategies for Digital Content Conference in London, at the charmingly named Goodenough College. The RunCoCo project has presented about the support they give to community collection digitisation projects. There are many questions … Continue reading →

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