Case Studies In Innovative Practice

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A series of case studies in innovative practice from the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University.

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Weblearn: Improving Admin

Dr Claire Aland, Director of Anatomy at University of Oxford, talks about how the WebLearn Sign Up tool has galvanised the organisation of anatomy demonstration at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.

Aug 24, 2012•4 min

Europeana 1914-1918: Community Collection

Alun Edwards, Manager for RunCoCo, University of Oxford, discusses the value of crowd-sourcing and public engagement in the Europeana 1914-1918 project to digitise First World War memorabilia.

Aug 24, 2012•5 min

23 Things: Oxford

Laura Wilkinson and Penny Schenk, librarians at the University of Oxford and members of the 23 Things Oxford Team, talk about their blog-based training programme to teach Web 2.0 skills to Oxford librarians.

Aug 24, 2012•7 min

Student Innovation: the LHSee app

Chris Boddy, a Physics DPhil candidate at University of Oxford, talks about how he developed a smartphone app to explain the complex images produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Aug 21, 2012•6 min

Blogging to Engage: Politics in Spires

Kate Candy, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, explains the cross-institutional blog, Politics in Spires, which aims to share thoughts on Politics and International Relations with the subject community.

Mar 02, 2012•6 min

Assessment for Learning: Using Mobile Polls in the Classroom

Dr Helen Christian describes her use of the audience response system via the WebLearn Polls Tool and Mobile Oxford supplied for free by Oxford University.

Feb 15, 2012•9 min

Blended Learning in Cross-Disciplinary Programmes: WebLearn

Dr Adrian Stokes explains how the systematic use of Weblearn, the university's VLE, has led to a sustainable and efficient framework for blended learning.

Feb 09, 2012•8 min

Student Innovation: Developing Mobile Apps for learning

Helen Ginn, a Biochemistry undergraduate at Magdalen College, talks about how she developed a mobile app to serve a specific niche task.

Feb 01, 2012•5 min

Using Agent-based Modelling to think about Complex Systems

The Modelling4All project at the University of Oxford have developed the BehaviourComposer tool to enable scholars to create agent-based models, opening up this area of investigation to much wider audiences in teaching, learning, research and outreach.

Jan 25, 2012•8 min

Supporting Tutorials: Using Weblearn

Revd Dr James Robson at Wycliffe Hall has used WebLearn, the University's Virtual Learning Environment, for tutoring and supporting his students in their learning and formation.

Jan 18, 2012•6 min

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