20m announced for open learning

Posted on June 24, 2009 by admin

The Open Learning Innovation Fund was announced yesterday – 20m of funding. Listen to the podcast by David Lammy, Minister for HE: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/06/podcast83davidlammy.aspx

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Groupware Project – it’s coming

Posted on June 2, 2009 by admin

The Groupware project being run by OUCS is running to schedule and budget, which means that at the moment we are hitting our target of migrating all students in September 2009, not creating any new users on Herald from 1st … Continue reading →

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HE in a Web 2.0 world

Posted on June 2, 2009 by admin

New report out on how Higher Education in the UK is going to fare in the brave new Web 2.0 world ‘that hath such people in it’: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/heweb2.aspx

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75k of funding for teaching/learning

Posted on June 2, 2009 by admin

JISC have just announced a new round of innovation on teaching/learning grants. See: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2009/05/circular408.aspx. If you are interested and want some advice then speak to OUCS about this (ltg@oucs.ox.ac.uk)!

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Text Encoding Summer Fun

Posted on June 2, 2009 by admin

Annual summer school on text encoding at OUCS has been announced. Dates: Monday 20 July – Friday 24 July. Full information and online booking: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/events/2009-07/index.xml

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