Interesting blog post: how VLEs impact teaching – Lisa M Lane

Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today’s large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies. … Continue reading

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Plagiarism Conference

This fourth biennial conference, hosted by plagiarismadvice.org, and sponsored by Ofqual draws together delegates from the international educational community. In 2008 250 delegates from schools, colleges, universities, awarding and regulatory bodies along with commercial organisations from around the world met … Continue reading

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WebLearn success story

As one of the new WebLearn early adopters, the MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) course has had a very successful year – winning two teaching awards: the OxTALENT Award and the Oxford University Teaching Award. Amanda Bulrs, the course … Continue reading

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Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai

This article by Josh Baron outlines the annual Sakai T&L awards. The article details this year’s winners and gives of examples of the kind of innovation that the courses offer. It’s well worth a quick read, see: http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/10/14/Innovating-Teaching-and-Learning-with-Sakai.aspx

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Pandemic Planning – how WebLearn can help you.

New WebLearn offers many facilities which will be invaluable to Departments should parts of the University have to close due to a ‘Swine flu’ pandemic. Read more about how WebLearn can help with Pandemic Planning on the OUCS website.

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