Go_girl: code+create project secures external funding

— By Anne Geniets — The Go_girl: code+create project, which was funded in its first year by the University’s IT Innovation Challenges award, has secured funding from Goldman Sachs Gives. Jo Hannaford, Partner at Goldman Sachs, said: ‘Providing young women … Continue reading

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New record for IT Innovation Challenges

(Also posted in News from Academic IT) The latest round of the IT Innovation Challenges has just closed for submissions with a record number of ideas being shared. This round, which was open to student only, invited ideas around the … Continue reading

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Student 2017 challenges now live

IT Innovation Challenges are looking for innovative ideas for digital projects to be run by students. Successful ideas will receive funding of up to £15,000. For this round, we particularly welcome ideas related to teaching and learning and student welfare, but … Continue reading

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New project: SHOAL

The SHOAL project is up and running! SHOAL stands for SHaring Online Activities for Learning. The SHOAL project aims to make it easier for staff and students to try out innovative online learning developed here at Oxford, and re-purpose activities … Continue reading

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New app released: Self-Heal

A new app has been created by one of the student IT Innovation Challenges projects. Self-Heal is a free tool that guides the management and reduction of self-injury. It can be used anonymously and independently, to enable users to take … Continue reading

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go girl : Changing people’s lives

The IT Innovation Go_Girl project has been working with young women from non-traditional educational backgrounds, introducing them to website and app design. In this short video, researchers and participants talk about how the project helped to improve the confidence and … Continue reading

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Summer update

Some may think that summer is a quiet period where it comes to activities at the University. For the IT Innovation Challenges, however, the summer is a very busy period. Having competed the third 2015/16 challenge in June (see Spring … Continue reading

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Revealing the Hidden Museum

— By Jessica Suess — With funding and support from the University of Oxford’s IT Innovation Seed Fund (now IT Innovation Challenges), over the last 12 months a small team of colleagues from the Oxford University Museums and the University’s … Continue reading

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Building a Writing App

— By Noreen Masud — Good writing requires structure and depth, a well-planned architecture with a clear route from beginning to end. As writers and teachers, we are grateful for the IT Innovation Fund’s award to design a writing application … Continue reading

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IT Innovation get-together

Inspired by comments at the latest kick-off meeting, IT Innovation held an informal get-together for current projects on July 27. Despite summer being upon us, nine projects were able to attend and contributed by sharing experiences and ideas over cake … Continue reading

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