Teaching with Sakai webinar 21/11/11 at 8pm

You are invited to register for the upcoming Teaching with Sakai webinar series: Wikifolios, Wikiflections, & Exams for Online Participation, Understanding & Achievement Monday, November 21, 2011 8pm (3 pm EST; noon PST) Daniel Hickey (Indiana University – Bloomington) is … Continue reading

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Accessing WebLearn via Mobile Oxford: Wed 16 Nov, 12:30-13:30 at OUCS

Did you know that you can have students complete a quick quiz during a lecture using their mobile phones and instantly see and discuss the results? Did you know that students can use their mobile phones to receive course announcements, … Continue reading

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Supporting Institutional Practice for feedback and Assessment (SIPA) Project

The WebLearn team is investigating, promoting and supporting the use of the external Turnitin plagiarism detection and prevention service and allied products GradeMark (online marking and annotations) and PeerMark (student peer marking and assessment). Turnitin is integrated into the WebLearn … Continue reading

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WebLearn report: May 2011- Oct 2011

Period: May 2011- Oct 2011 Software New WebLearn was upgraded for times between May and Oct 2011 – it now stands at v2.6-0x9.1. For more detailed information please looked at the relevant blog posts: http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/07/weblearn-upgraded-to-2-6-ox8/ http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/08/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox8-1-on-22-august-2011/ http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/10/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox9-on-27-september-2011/ http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/10/weblearn-upgraded-to-version-2-6-ox9-1-on-18-october-2011/ Old WebLearn … Continue reading

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Useful advice and free teaching and learning resources

Jill Fresen has drawn my attention to this useful resource: The Staff area of Association for Learning Development in HE website contains lots of resources in various formats (including a fridge magnet about academic writing(!). It has good layout within … Continue reading

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Xerte content authoring tool

The University of Nottingham’s Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials. Pat Lockley, worked in the Xerte team (who won the 2009 ALT Learning Technologists Team of … Continue reading

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GLOMaker content authoring tool

London Metropolitan University’s GLOMaker tool is a free open source tool which allows elearning developers and content authors to produce highly structured and media rich interactive learning materials. In May, Professor Tom Boyle from the Reusable Learning Objects CETL gave … Continue reading

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Book Release: “Sakai CLE Courseware Management”

The Sakai Foundation and PACKT publishers are proud to announce the Sakai CLE Courseware Management book. This is the official guide to the Sakai CLE. http://www.packtpub.com/sakai-cle-courseware-management-for-elearning-research/book This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide and is an update to the … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group TT2011 presentations available

From Jill Fresen: Thanks to Fawei Geng, the recordings and presentations from the WLUG meeting of Trinity Term 2011 are now available from the Home Page in the WebLearn User Group site. Trinity Term: Thursday 7 July 2011 2:00-4:00 pm … Continue reading

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WebLearn Announcements now available via Mobile Oxford

The Mobile Oxford team have now added the Announcements tool to their WebLearn area. Clicking on the Announcements link in Mobile Oxford will collate all announcements from all sites where the user is a participant and display them in a … Continue reading

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