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Oxford OER International

Melissa Highton — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:36:59 +0000

A new case study published by the Higher Education Academy describes the ways in which we promote and track international use of our OER collections.

Global Reach

Melissa Highton — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:19:49 +0000

Twitter gives us global reach. This map shows the mentions @LTGOxford has had around the world. We have 1200 followers with 553 mentions and retweets in 136 locations.

Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age

Melissa Highton — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:21:35 +0000

Designing for 21st Century Learning, examines a wide range of perspectives on effectively designing and delivering learning activities to ensure that future development is pedagogically sound, learner-focused, and accessible. It features Liz Masterman as author of Chapter 4 ‘The challenge of teachers’ design practice’.

MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education

Melissa Highton — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:50:55 +0000

By Li Yuan and Stephen Powell, JISC CETIS. March 2013. This report sets out to help decision makers in higher education institutions gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and trends towards greater openness in higher education and to think about the implications for their institutions. MOOCs and Open Education: Implications for Higher Education (pdf)

ever wondered how to cite a television advert?

Melissa Highton — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:12:04 +0000

… Or what about an extra from a DVD? Do you ever need to provide advice to students or contributors about how to reference audiovisual content within their own work? The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) has today launched a pioneering set of guidelines to help answer all these questions and more.

Into the wild – Technology for open educational resources

Melissa Highton — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:51:49 +0000

By Amber Thomas, Lorna M. Campbell, Phil Barker and Martin Hawksey (Eds). Reflections on three years of the UK OER Programmes. Our work at Oxford is cited in this new book. Between 2009 and 2012 the Higher Education Funding Council funded a series of programmes to encourage higher education institutions in the UK to release existing educational content as Open Educational Resources.

Google Analytics

Melissa Highton — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:17:05 +0000

Google Analytics tracks the actions of people when they are browsing your website. These are the most important metrics. The rationale for using analytics data is to help you understand more about the behaviour of people visiting your web pages. As part of our OER internationalisation project we commissioned a consultants report on using Google Analytics. The report describes a simple 5-step methodology you can use to understand and improve the performance of your OER materials and is available on our website

Open access to Oxford publications

Melissa Highton — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:11:02 +0000

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. The Oxford Open Access project is a collaborative project involving Research Services, the Bodleian Libraries, IT Services, the Planning and Resource Allocation Section, OUP and the Academic Divisions, accountable to the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) and the Research Committee.

Assistive Learning Technologies Report

Melissa Highton — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:04:20 +0000

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.

Oxford Talks

Melissa Highton — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:09:13 +0000

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 http://talks.ox.ac.uk/