The annual Digital Classicist seminar series on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component will run again in Summer 2012. 

Themes could include digital text, linguistics technology, imaging and visualization, linked data,
open access, geographic analysis, serious gaming and any other digital or quantitative methods. While we welcome high-quality application papers discussing individual projects, the series also hopes to accommodate broader theoretical consideration of the use of digital technology in Classical studies. The content should be of interest both to classicists, ancient historians or archaeologists, and to information
scientists or digital humanists, and have an academic research agenda relevant to at least one of those fields.

The Oxford e-Social Science team study how e-Research projects negotiate various social, ethical, legal and organizational forces and constraints, in order to help researchers avoid these problems when building scientific collaborations and tools for research.

Their ‘Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights’  event  will be held on 12 March 2012 in Oxford. If you wish to submit an abstract (around 250 words), please send it to events@oii.ox.ac.uk by 15 December with ‘Interdisciplinary Insights’ in the subject field. Further details about the event are at: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=486

Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens have  research seminars taking place this term. Wednesday 9th November Seminar Room G/H, 5–6.30pm
Facework on Facebook as a new literacy practice
Dr Julia Davies, School of Education, University of Sheffield

 Tuesday 22nd November Seminar Room E, 2-3.30pm
Future Proofing or Future Building? Education and the problem of the next 100 years…Professor Keri Facer, Manchester Metropolitan University

Online event: 22-25 November 2011

Want to know more about how advances in digital technology are changing the learning landscape and what this might mean for you? Keep abreast of what’s new and what matters by registering for the JISC Online Conference.  Now in its sixth year, the JISC Online Conference offers an invaluable opportunity to engage with the latest developments in technology-enhanced practice in UK further and higher education. Register now

  Tuesday 7 February 17:00-18:00 

LTG in conjunction with the new Kellogg Research Centre for Assistive  Learning Technologies welcome Azra Naseem, Head of eLearning and Open Learning at the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development in Karachi. AKU is a multi-campus university located in three continents: Asia (Pakistan and Afghanistan), East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) and Europe (London UK). She will present about her work in enhanced collaborative learning, mLearning and instructional design for blended learning in challenging contexts.

 A situated (Lave and Wenger 1991) faculty professional development programme is being implemented at the Aga Khan University in South Asia and East Africa. The purpose of this programme is to enhance faculty members’ knowledge and skills to design and teach courses through blended learning approaches to students in other cities and continents. In this model, a group of faculty members are engaged in a nine-month process of face-to-face and online learning to re-design and offer existing face-to-face courses as blended learning courses. Faculty research teams have been formed to conduct research around the issues emerging from the practice. Through various scaffolds and a process of social participation and individual and group reflections, conditions for success are created to allow faculty members to develop expertise in blended learning (see Vygotsky 1978; Brown, Collins, and Duguid 1989; Lave and Wenger 1991; Mishra and Koehler, 2006). The programme started in September 2011 with 15 faculty members from Nursing, Education and the Medical College.

 Emerging findings suggest that blended learning is a process of transforming pedagogy, as it requires faculty members to make significant changes in their teaching approach. Another important learning at this stage of the programme is that managing a faculty development programme across geographical boundaries is faced with inherent challenges of infrastructure instability, a lack of appropriately qualified academic support staff, learner readiness for blended learning, collaborative teaching and research a the university, and system inertia. It appears that if managed appropriately a situated faculty professional development programme is likely to lead to a continuous cycle of learning, unlearning and re-learning not only for the faculty, but also for the students and university administration.

We are offering more than 60 open IT courses in February.  From corpus linguistics to WebEx. 

For our full listing for Hilary term please visit http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/atoz

25th November, OUCS 2pm
Lisa Sargood will be with us to talk about her work at BBC  Vision – and how you can get media proposals in shape for commissioning by large companies such as the BBC. Its a unique chance to hear the perspective from a friendly voice on the other side of the table. Not to be missed.

Getting a multiplatform project into shape is no easy task. With a range of models to follow and where content can be developed across any number of platforms – web, mobile, via Apps, interactive TV, IPTV etc – where
do you start? In this session BBC Commissioner Lisa Sargood, will talk about the critical questions you should ask, and outline a simple process – with some strong recent case studies – that will help to ensure your creative digital ideas are fully developed, with the rigour required to attract a commissioner’s attention.