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Feedback sought on proposed part-time MSc in Surgical Sciences: 5 February 2010, 12:19 pm; The University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Surgery and Department for Continuing Education are working on the development of a new part-time MSc in Surgical Sciences (working title).
Creative Writing Contest: Win a Creative Writing Course at Oxford: 28 January 2010, 11:58 am; Oxford University is sponsoring its first ever creative writing competition. The contest, which is free and open to anyone, is being run by the University's Department for Continuing Education. Entry deadline: 1 March 2010.
Dr Adrian Stokes appointed new Director of Continuing Professional Development: 26 January 2010, 2:36 pm; Dr Adrian Stokes, currently Director of Masters Programmes and Continuing Professional Development at the Institute of Clinical Education, Warwick Medical School, has been appointed as the next Director of Continuing Professional Development at the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education. He will take up his appointment on 1st March 2010.
Professor Marcus du Sautoy is made an OBE for services to science: 5 January 2010, 10:54 am; Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science, Professor of Mathematics and Fellow of New College, is made an OBE for services to science. His research interests include prime numbers and symmetry and he is the author of popular science books The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine.
Simonyi Professor Marcus du Sautoy Featured in Wired Magazine: 21 December 2009, 1:42 pm; The Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science Marcus du Sautoy explains to Wired Magazine that education in Maths will give Britain a technology edge.
Dr David Howard, Lecturer on the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development, Joins Prince Charles on Oxford Visit to Poundbury: 16 December 2009, 10:16 am; A contingent from Oxford accompanied Prince Charles on a visit to Poundbury, Dorset in connection with the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities and a new Oxford MSc in Sustainable Urban Development. Poundbury, the location for the meeting, is an experiment in urban design established by the Prince in 1993, and aims to offer a model for government and the development industry to look at sustainable development in the twenty-first century.
Professor Jonathan Michie, Director of the Department for Continuing Education, Selected as "Ownership Commissioner": 16 December 2009, 10:00 am; The economic crisis has led to a widespread mistrust of institutions. The Commission on Ownership's main tasks will be to look at what lessons can be learned, and to examine the importance of a diversity of corporate forms to the British economy. The Commission on Ownership will be run by the Oxford Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business at Kellogg College, Oxford University
Hear the Inaugural Lecture from the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009.: 30 November 2009, 5:03 pm; "Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth" - the Inaugural Lecture of the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, 2009
Inside the mathemagical labyrinth: 27 November 2009, 2:40 pm; Wednesday saw a series of special events for schools and the public, organised by Department for Continuing Education, to celebrate Marcus du Sautoy's inaugural lecture as Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.
Simonyi Professor Inaugural Lecture, 25 November: Marcus du Sautoy - "Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth": 5 November 2009, 4:13 pm; Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Marcus du Sautoy, will deliver his Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday 25 November, at 5.30 p.m. A reception will follow the lecture.
High-profile report is backed by the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee: 8 October 2009, 12:12 pm; Professor Jonathan Michie's report, from the Kellogg College Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business, for the Building Societies Association on 'Converting failed financial institutions into mutual organisations' reveals a strong case for converting failed banks into mutual organisations. It urges the Government to consider seriously returning Northern Rock bank to the mutual sector.
Record breaking online student numbers: 5 October 2009, 4:04 pm; This term we have a record breaking 1000+ students taking our online courses. This is especially good in the face of the current economic climate, and may be a consequence of it. However I also think it is a great testament to the quality of our courses and the work of everyone in the [...]
Feedback sought on proposed new University of Oxford Master's programme: 21 August 2009, 8:39 am; The Department for Continuing Education and the James Martin 21st Century School are working on the development of an innovative part-time, two-year MSc programme in 21st Century Challenges and Opportunities (working title).
New Tool Will Help Archaeologists “See” Beneath the Surface: 14 August 2009, 2:56 pm; In archaeology, geophysical surveying equipment, known as ‘magnetometers’, assist archaeologists in creating detailed mapping of sub-surface archaeological features. Thanks to continued generous support from Bartington Instruments Ltd of Witney, archaeology students in the Department for Continuing Education will now have an expanded ability to “see” beneath the surface.
Kind words, dark deeds: 14 August 2009, 8:01 am
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education tops the charts: 12 August 2009, 8:47 am
Teaching and learning in the digital age: 7 August 2009, 12:19 pm; Two new guides have recently been published by JISC to provide advice on effective teaching and learning practice in the digital age. The Department has contributed to both guides through its e-learning project work.
Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Charles Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, wins Royal Society Faraday Award: 14 July 2009, 9:37 am; The Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize is awarded annually for excellence in communicating science to UK audiences.
OpenSpires: 26 May 2009, 4:55 pm; TALL is part of a team, led by Oxford University Computing Services, that has recently been awarded funding from the JISC/HE Academy Open Educational Resources Programme for the Open Spires project. The project has two purposes: to increase the amount of learning content (especially audio and video) released from Oxford and to enable the University to [...]
RECIPROCATE: 5 May 2009, 10:10 am; We are about to start the RECIPROCATE (REgional Climate International: PRoviding Online Climatological Applied Training and Education) project. Funded by the NERC Knowledge Transfer scheme, this is a joint project between the Department for Continuing Education (CPD and TALL), the Climateprediction.net team at the Department of Physics’ Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics group and the [...]
ForumOxford: Future Technologies Conference: 30 March 2009, 9:41 am; Curious as to why the one-day forum oxford conference on mobile developments in April 2009 is going to be one of the best on the planet?
How Oxford pioneered working-class education: 3 February 2009, 3:30 pm; The Department for Continuing Education is well know locally for the many extramural classes it runs in Oxford and the surrounding area, but what is perhaps less well known is that the University, in the early years of the 20th century, led the movement to establish adult and working-class education.
Online in Africa: 3 February 2009, 3:28 pm; Aspiring teenage entrepreneurs from deprived South African townships are now benefiting from an online study skills course created by the Department in partnership with a university in Cape Town. The project is called Masifunde - a Xhosa expression meaning 'Let us learn' - and is funded by the UK government's Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
Launching Ancestral voices: the earliest English literature: 28 January 2009, 3:25 pm; After months of work we are finally launching our Ancestral voices: the earliest English literature course today with actual students! This course has been developed using almost entirely existing content as part of the Mosaic project funded by JISC. The course as a whole learning experience with tutor will be running for the next 10 [...]
Symposium and Lecture on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: 21 January 2009, 10:12 am; New body parts for old: stem cells and regenerative medicine. A Symposium and Lecture on Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: 4 March 2009, St Edward's School, Oxford.
How did the financial crisis develop and what happens next?: 9 January 2009, 4:14 pm; Arguably the biggest news of the last twelve months has been the growing financial crisis. Professor Jonathan Michie, Director of the Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College, Oxford, and Dr Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford have recently recorded a podcast "How did this crisis develop and what happens next?" to discuss this topic. The podcast is proving very popular and has already make the top ten of the University's iTunes U site.
Lifelong Learning: “intelligent, thought-provoking and inspirational”.: 5 January 2009, 9:37 am; Lifelong learner Peter Johnston praised the Department for Continuing Education after attending two of its courses.
Charitable Givers send a Happy Christmas to All!: 18 December 2008, 9:03 am; All those below have contributed to Helen and Douglas House this year instead of sending cards, and wish their colleagues and friends in the Department a very happy Christmas and New Year:
Can you dig it?: 27 November 2008, 11:39 am; Oxford Mail, p.10, Fran Bardsley, 27/11/2008 Archaeology fans have been invited to get involved in a major project aimed at uncovering the history of the east of Oxford. The project has been launched by Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education, with the aim of getting interested groups and individuals trained in archaeological techniques before helping with research.
Zivani Festival at Continuing Education: 28 October 2008, 8:59 am; On Wednesday 22 October the Department hosted the Zivani Festival of African cultural events, including musical workshops, an exhibition of paintings and information about Oxford's Black History. Among other visitors was Oxford's Lord Mayor, Councillor Susannna Pressel.
Science student spends global summer at Oxford: 20 October 2008, 9:48 am; In July 2008 International Programmes launched the first Global Leadership Programme for nominated students from the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), which incldes ETH Zurich, Yale, Tokyo, Singapore, Peking, Oxford, Copenhagen, Cambridge, UC Berkeley, and ANU. A second Global Leadership programme is being offered in the summer of 2009.
Department for Continuing Education on iTunes U: 7 October 2008, 9:13 am; Oxford University lectures are from 7 October available on iTunes U, which will make available a range of free audio and video podcasts from across the University. Continuing Education is one of the nine top-level ‘categories’ – here you can find presentations and lectures by both members of staff and guest lecturers, including Dr Anna Beer talking about the poet Milton and Chris Day giving an overview of the history of the University of Oxford.
New courses this term: 24 September 2008, 6:03 pm; We are just in the middle of our termly launch period for our online courses and it is looking like we are going to hit 700 students this term, which is really amazing considering how recently we were pleased about having 100! Most excitingly we are launching new courses in English Poetry of the First World [...]
Find out about Phoebe: 22 September 2008, 1:11 pm; In recent months we have been doing a lot more work with video content and as part of this we have recorded me giving an overview of the Phoebe tool. This is basically the demonstration of Phoebe we usually give at the start of workshops – hopefully all you need to know to get stared [...]
Double accolade for Departmental staff: 4 August 2008, 2:54 pm; Ralf Hinze – Reader in Software Engineering
Ralf Hinze, with Oxford University since 2007, has been made a Reader in Software Engineering by the University's 'Recognition of Distinction' Committee. Ralf's research centres around functional programming and he is particularly interested in functional algorithm design and purely functional data structures. At the moment Ralf is mainly working on generic functional programming (Generic Haskell) and in the past has worked on strictness analysis and type systems.

David Griffiths – Reader in Archaeology
David Griffiths has been made Reader in Archaeology by the University's 'Recognition of Distinction' Committee. David has taught at OUDCE since 1999, and is Course Director of the MSc in Applied Landscape Archaeology and the Advanced Diploma in Archaeological Practice. His research specialism is on the early medieval period, looking in particular at landscape and economy of the Viking settlements of Britain and Scandinavia. He recently completed a monograph on the coastal trading site of Meols (Wirral, NW England) and is currently running a landscape field project in Orkney. A new venture will begin in October - a community archaeology and history project on the landscape of East Oxford, for which a pilot grant has been secured from the John Fell Fund (more will be announced about this later in 2008).
Award winning Phoebe: 12 June 2008, 3:09 pm; Today we found out that Phoebe won an award at Oxford’s IT in Teaching and Learning Awards awards, OxTALENT. This is particularly gratifying as for a long time, while awareness of Phoebe outside Oxford has been high, it has been a real challenge to get the word out in Oxford itself. There was a [...]
Finding the real need for planning tools: 25 February 2008, 5:36 pm; The concentration needed to develop our pedagogic planner tool Phoebe has necessarily brought our gaze inward during parts of the project. Over the last few weeks we have returned to looking outward, and have been talking to various people from other projects in the same space, particularly Jeff Earp from the ReMath project, Andrew [...]
Oxford University appoints new Director for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College: 13 December 2007, 9:07 am; Professor Jonathan Michie is to be appointed to the joint positions of Director of the Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College at Oxford University. He will replace Dr Geoffrey Thomas who is retiring from the joint post later this month. Professor Michie's appointment will take effect from 1 April 2008.
CPD online courses for Autumn: 13 September 2007, 9:31 am; We are launching a number of Continuing Professional Development courses, this Autumn including 2 new courses. 24th September Introduction to Electronics Patient-Based Evidence (NEW) 1st October Perl for Bioinformatics 22nd October Key Concepts in Health Care for People Experiencing Homelessness 5th November Effective Online Tutoring (NEW) For [...]
Online courses for the Autumn: 5 September 2007, 11:20 am; This autumn we are offering more short courses than ever before, including 7 new courses 10th September Brontës (NEW) Learning to Look at the Visual Arts New Economic Powers Study Skills 12th September Jane Austen Learning to Look at Western Architecture Philosophy Gym Political Philosophy 17th September Exploring Roman Britain Islamic Art and Architecture (NEW) Victorian Fiction: an Introduction (NEW) 19th September Contemporary British Fiction; an Introduction (NEW) Critical Reading Durer to [...]
online short courses recruit 1000th student: 27 July 2007, 7:27 am; The 1000th student, John Smith, joined a short course in philosophy. John is based in Singapore. 'I liked the idea of joining an intellectually challenging course with an international body of students - it will get my own philosophy understanding going'

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Ralf Hinze – Reader in Software Engineering

David Griffiths – Reader in Archaeology