OxTALENT- Teaching and Learning Enhanced with Technology

The invitations are out, the champagne glasses are being unpacked and the red carpet unrolled.

ORIOLE (Open Resources: Influence on Learners and Educators) (http://orioleproject.blogspot.com ) would like to hear from educators that do. They have launched an online survey (access from website) and would appreciate your responses. The average time to complete the survey is 20 minutes and there is a charitable twist. Respondants are asked to select charities from a list with the most popular three each receiving £100. So please try the survey and, if you are interested in open content and open educational resources, watch that site and spread the word. The survey ends on 26 May results of the survey will be disseminated from July.

This week £4m for a Phase 3 JISC/HEA open education resource (OER) programme was announced (see http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer for information appearing soon), so this work is particularly timely.

ORIOLE is funded from a HEA National Teaching Fellowship (Chris Pegler – c.a.pegler@open.ac.uk), and Chris would like to hear from other educators who are working in the area of use/reuse of online and open resources. The ‘Shop’ area of the ORIOLE site contains her reusable card game which you are welcome to download and repurpose.

As part of the make: strand of courses being offered by the IT Learning Programme at OUCS, and in conjunction with the annual OxTALENT awards, we are currently running two competitions.

**Research Digital Images**Do you have an image that you have created as part of your research? The image could be of fieldwork, an experiment, a sample, yourself engaged in your research, but it could equally well be an illustration that you have created. The images will be displayed at the University’s annual OxTALENT award ceremony.

**Conference Posters** If you have created a poster about your research for a conference, why not submit it to our poster competition? The top posters, as judged by an OUCS panel, will be printed and displayed at the University’s annual OxTALENT award ceremony.

The closing date for entries for both competitions is 6th May 2011.

The entry form for the 2011 ALT Learning Technologist of the Year Award  is now available. Are you a star?

The closing date for entries is 26 May 2011.

The inaugural Digital Media User Group event was held on a March Wednesday evening at OUCS and a full Isis lecture theatre enjoyed 3 very different talks.

Alison Kahn showcased her work with the Pitt Rivers Museum working with archive  anthropological footage taken early last century, and mapping that footage to objects in the museum. Using high resolution still photography, the objects are captured to archive standard and the film can be tailored to multiple audiences and purposes – from TV documentary purposes to specialist teaching support. The end results were captivating and showed the objects in high enough resolution to be useful as graphical study aides

Maarten Roos showcased some of the work he has done in supporting and promoting the work of numerous Science based projects using the skills he has developed as a serious filmmaker. His work with the VIRTIS space instrument is worth a closer look. To join the group contact: stephen.eyre@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Championed by Rowan Wilson a project created by OUCS has won a £20,000 prize from the Intellectual Property Office, part of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. The Fast Forward competition asked Higher Education and Research institutions to come up with ideas would improve the management of intellectual property and knowledge exchange. Project Hagen is building a web application that advises knowledge transfer professionals on exploitation models and licence choice around open content and open source software. The project has grown out of the work of OSS Watch, the JISC-funded open source software advisory service and Ripple, a JISC project to help the release of open educational resources.