Learning Technologies Group at OUCS

Our ‘Engage’ programme of social media training which ran in Michaelmas term this year is now  ‘award winning’. The team have won the 1st UCISA Amber Miro Memorial Award for Technology Innovation.

The January issue of the Oxford Blueprint magazine features out Great Writers OER project on its front cover. Complete with interactive key to the writers.

‘I’ve had responses from as far away as Iran, the USA, Portugal and Kyrgyzstan to my iTunes lectures: far beyond their original delivery in a lecture theatre in Oxford. Oxford’s open projects and the Creative Commons license enable us to extend our work into courses in other universities, and to encourage more people from around the world to develop their academic interests.’

In order to gain a deep understanding of the feedback gathered in the recent DIGE report, the WebLearn Student Experience (WLSE) project aims to enhance the student experience of using  WebLearn . Read about the project

Oxford University continues to lead the UK in the amounts of open online learning resources we release. Check out our new international collections highlighted as part of our HEA internationalisation projects.

The University of Oxford academic community is strongly committed to ensuring the widest possible access to its research. A new OpenAccess website has been established by the Bodleian Library to explain how this is to be done.

A new report from the Kellogg ALT Centre highlights the fact that assistive technologies can provide a positive means of helping to enable learning, and a great deal of work has been conducted on this topic from a broad range of disciplines. Research has greatly increased our understanding of the needs of learners and young people with special educational needs, including methods for overcoming the challenges to conducting research in this area.

You’ll remember that one of the recommendations from the recent DIGE report referred to the need to bring data  about lectures and talks happening at Oxford together in one place.  It referred to ‘OxfordTalks or its successor’. Talks.linacre has now been adopted, centralised,  opened up and crowdsourced  to create talks.ox.ac.uk/

Jisc and Ithaka S+R are launching “Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content”, a new report aimed at helping digital projects to thrive. The report includes a Sustainability Health Check Tool for Digital Content Projects.

From addiction to gaming, the distractions of the Internet, to the risks of social networking, the downsides of new technology in the lives of teenagers are often over-blown. Teenagers and Technology by  Oxford researchers Chris Davies (Education)and Rebecca Eynon (OII)presents a balanced picture of the part played by technology in the lives of young people.