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Teenagers and Technology

Melissa Highton — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:14:54 +0000

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.

Oportunidad

Melissa Highton — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:55:25 +0000

Researchers at Oxford have produced a trilingual compendium of international, institutional OER case studies . Featuring Open Spires of course.

Commission presents new Rethinking Education strategy

Melissa Highton — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:52:29 +0000

The European Commission is launching a new strategy called Rethinking Education to encourage Member States to take immediate action to ensure that young people develop the skills and competences needed by the labour market and to achieve their targets for growth and jobs.

“The use of ICT and open educational resources (OER) should be scaled-up in all learning contexts. ”

“… and an EU-level impact analysis on the use of ICT and OER in education to pave the way for a new initiative in 2013 on Opening-up Education, aiming to maximise the potential of ICT for learning.”

UNESCO OER declaration

Melissa Highton — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:31:38 +0000

The World OER Congress held at UNESCO, Paris on 20-22 June 2012 recommended that member states ‘Foster awareness and use of OER’: Promote and use OER to widen access to education at all levels, and improve both cost-efficiency and quality of teaching and learning outcomes through greater use of OER.

Better Learning through Technology

Melissa Highton — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:33:36 +0000

Better Learning through Technology – a report from the SchoolsTech Conversation . LTG’s Liz Masterman’s says “the report gives a good sense of the current landscape in schools from teachers’ perspectives. The sentence that leapt out for me is ‘Technology … Continue reading →

Ready to Research

Melissa Highton — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:14:39 +0000

The site is a portal to a collection of high quality self-study open educational resources (OERs) targeted at students in UK institutions following research degrees.

In the Horizon

Melissa Highton — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:13:02 +0000

Each year, the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and creative expression over the next one to five years. The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are: Mobile Apps,Tablet Computing, Game-based Learning, Learning Analytics, Gesture-based Computing and the Internet of Things.

OUCS @artweeks

Melissa Highton — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:41:59 +0000

Once again this year, OUCS becomes a venue during Artweeks to showcase the beautiful and inspiring artwork created by our colleagues.

Sustainability Report

Melissa Highton — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:50:15 +0000

Oxford University’s Environmental Sustainability Report includes mentions for the Media Production Unit’s video conferencing facilities. Saving the University thousands of travel miles and staff time in transit.

The role of research supervisors in information literacy

Melissa Highton — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:23:05 +0000

The ability of researchers to handle information is of vital importance. This study from RIN asks questions about how researchers develop appropriate skills, the support they receive, the training opportunities provided for them, and the take-up of such opportunities are thus highly pertinent. The report is available to download on the main project page.