Academic IT: Featured stories

Best practice in information skills training

Melissa Highton — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:57:58 +0000

Our Research Skills Toolkit has been shortlisted as one of 15 examples of best practice in information skills training for postgraduate students in the UK by the Research Information and Digital Literacies Coalition (RIDLS)

Summer Internships

Melissa Highton — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:25:22 +0000

Over the summer IT Services offer paid internships to Oxford University Students. These are exciting opportunities to join our dedicated IT Services teams and we are looking for students from various backgrounds. The internship will offer you valuable work experience that will help in your future career, as well as being part of a key project for the University. Send your CV by 14th June.

Sugarscape Session at Said

Melissa Highton — Wed, 29 May 2013 10:38:43 +0000

Howard and Ken led another session for agent based modelling students this month. While the group was smaller than previous years, one student very quickly finished the entire exercise and three stayed beyond the scheduled two hours experimenting, analysing, and discussing their models.

WebLearn on iPads in the MPP

Melissa Highton — Tue, 28 May 2013 13:23:59 +0000

The Blavatnik School of Government have produced a short video to show how they used WebLearn to support their students using ipads on course.

DiXiT

Melissa Highton — Tue, 28 May 2013 12:26:33 +0000

We are delighted to have secured funding for a new EU funded DiXiT project. The DiXiT project is a network of ten leading European institutions from universities and academies closely collaborating with the private sector and cultural heritage institutions that will focus on training and investigation of the skills will training and investigating the production of digital scholarly editions. IT Services will be hosting an Experienced Researcher and providing training workshops.

Thursday 23 May is Learning at Work Day!

Melissa Highton — Tue, 14 May 2013 09:11:47 +0000

Learning at Work Day is a national annual awareness campaign to promote and support workplace learning. This year’s theme is “Many Ways to Learn” and all University staff are invited to sample our many ways to learn from a range of face to face sessions, downloadable podcasts and on-line learning material. There are over a dozen courses that you can book to attend on Thursday 23 May. Training providers across the University are coming together to offer these courses in one central venue – 13 Banbury Road.

One stop shop for Graduate Training

Melissa Highton — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:41:11 +0000

The Graduate Training information site in WebLearn has been expanded to advertise training opportunities for graduate students provided by all the academic divisions and departments as well as the Libraries, IT Services, Careers Service, Language Centre. Students are able to browse or search for training opportunities and to request places, to their develop academic, professional and personal skills and to help plan their careers. The site is linked from all WebLearn sites, the University’s Student Gateway, and a catalogue of graduate training opportunities will be displayed publicly.

Make IT

Melissa Highton — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:47:33 +0000

make: lunch time talks showcase the creative use of technology in teaching, learning and research at Oxford University and beyond. 2013 is the fourth year of make: and we will be welcoming back some previous contributors together with many new ones.

OxTALENT 2013

Melissa Highton — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:33:42 +0000

It’s that time of year again. The OxTALENT annual awards recognise members of the University who have made use of ICT to foster learning and academic practice. The awards will be given at a redcarpet event on 18th June.

The Oxford Community Collection Model

Melissa Highton — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:02:22 +0000

Kate Lindsay presents the open, sustainable, re-usable and very cool ‘Oxford Community Collection Model’ for public engagement at the Oxford conference on Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities.