OxTALENT, in collaboration with the Learning Technologies Group at OUCS, organises an annual competition and awards ceremony for innovative use of IT in teaching and learning at the University.

The 2012 awards ceremony (by invitation only) will be held 4-6pm on Thursday 21 June 2012.

The OxTALENT annual awards recognise those who have made use of ICT to foster learning and academic practice at either undergraduate or postgraduate level. Awards can be given either to individuals or to teams. Applications relating to the development of more effective links between teaching and research or to improving impact and outreach will be particularly welcome.

You can send in your own work or nominate someone else. The deadline for submissions: 21 May 2012.

• Use of WebLearn to support a course or programme of study
• Student IT Innovation
• Research Posters
• Research Digital Image
• Research Infographic
• Academic podcasting
• Student podcasting

We also give prizes each year for examples of innovation and good practice which have been identified by LTG staff and the OXTALENT Committee during the year through our programme of events, courses, usergroups, case studies, meetings, projects, services, consultancy, surveys and user engagement. If you would like to let us know about an example of innovation or good practice you think we should consider for an award please contact ltg@oucs.ox.ac.uk

European Competition for Best Innovations in University Outreach and Public Engagement

As part of the EC-funded ULab project, the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford is organizing an online competition to identify the most innovative outreach and public engagement activities carried out by European Universities. To vote, please visit the EngageU website (http://engageawards.com/all-entries), click on an entry to read its description and then click the “vote for this entry” button if you think it represents the best innovation in university outreach and public engagement. For guidance, please review the judging criteria (http://engageawards.com/how-apply).

Each year the Sakai Foundation runs a competition to recognise and promote innovation in using Sakai (WebLearn at Oxford) for teaching and learning. The winners have travel expenses and conference registration paid to attend and present their innovations at the Sakai USA Conference in June 2012.

 Online entry will be available from 1 January 2012, and the closing date for submissions is 2 March. The WebLearn team encourages you to consider submitting an entry and is happy to provide assistance.

Last year’s winners (including Shirley Bennett from the University of Hull, UK) 

Please  contact Jill Fresen to express an interest in submitting an entry.