OxTALENT Speaker- Marcus Du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. In his launch talk for engage: Social Media Michaelmas in...
View ArticleUnder wraps: OxTALENT 2015…
Dinosaurs under wraps at the University Museum in 2013. CC BY ND Dark Dwarf; from Flickr Planning is now under way for the 2015 OxTALENT competition. We will be open for entries in early March, and...
View ArticleAnnouncing OxTALENT 2015
IT Services is delighted to launch the OxTALENT Competition 2015, celebrating and rewarding the innovative use of technology in teaching, learning, research, and outreach at Oxford. Once again, we have...
View ArticleSprucing up the red carpet for 16th June #oxtalent2015
CC0 from Pixabay The judging is over, the winners and runners-up have been notified, and the organising teams have swung into action to prepare for a very exciting awards ceremony on the afternoon of...
View ArticleInnovative Teaching with Technology
This is a general category in which we recognise people who have made creative use of digital technologies other than WebLearn in their teaching. Entries this year were of such a high standard that we...
View ArticleUse of WebLearn to Support Teaching, Learning or Outreach
This category seeks examples of using WebLearn in innovative ways to support online study and interaction as part of a course or programme of study at undergraduate or graduate level. Winner: Dr Lucy...
View ArticleData Visualisation
Software is making it easier to create data visualisations that are interactive and can be shared via the web. For example, we can create maps with ArcGIS and QGIS, representations of networks with...
View ArticleOutreach and Public Engagement: General
With evidence of impact a key requirement of many funders, and with global reach a major priority of the University, it is unsurprising that researchers are devising creative ways to ensure that their...
View ArticleStudent IT Innovation
This category showcases students’ creative use of digital technology in learning or research at Oxford. The judges were particularly impressed by the following three projects. Winners: Jean Petreschi...
View ArticleOutreach and Public Engagement: TES Connect
With evidence of impact a key requirement of many funders, and with global reach a major priority of the University, it is unsurprising that researchers are devising creative ways to ensure that their...
View ArticleConference Posters
This category showcases some of the creative poster designs that are created around the University in support of teaching, research and outreach. The IT Learning Programme delivers poster workshops to...
View ArticleOpen Practices
This is the second year in which we have offered an ‘open practices’ category in order to capture all of the exciting initiatives that are going on around the University under the umbrella of openness...
View ArticleAcademic Podcasting
Podcasting is now an established, integral part of Oxford’s outreach activities, both to disseminate research and to provide educational materials for schools and colleges. Indeed, this year podcasts...
View Article2015 OxTALENT Awards Ceremony: a great success
The 2015 OxTALENT WInners On Tuesday 16 June Academic IT Services hosted the annual OxTALENT Awards. OxTALENT is a competition and a ceremony designed to recognise and award colleagues and students...
View ArticleOxTALENT 2015 – Thanks to all
Thanks to all those who made OxTALENT another fantastic success this year – our team in IT Services, our prize winners, our speakers and our guests. We had over 80 nominations and awarded 27 prizes to...
View ArticleOxTALENT 2015: Winners
Innovative teaching with technology This category celebrates use of technology in the classroom. The winners demonstrate how any technology (other than WebLearn) has been used to address a particular...
View ArticleComing soon: OxTALENT 2016
This year sees the 15th annual OxTALENT competition. 2015 was a bumper year for both the quantity and quality of entries, and we’re hoping to top that in 2016. We will open for entries on 1st March,...
View ArticleOxTALENT 2016: now open for entries
IT Services is delighted to announce OxTALENT 2016, celebrating and rewarding the innovative use of technology in teaching, learning, research and outreach at Oxford. Once again, we have an array of...
View ArticleJoin us online!
If you’re unable to attend today’s award ceremony, @acitoxford will live-tweet the winners; the hashtag is #oxtalent2016. We will also publish short posts on this blog as the winners in each category...
View ArticleResearch Posters
This category showcases some of the creative poster designs that are created around the University in support of teaching, research and outreach. The IT Learning Programme delivers poster workshops to...
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