Research in e-learning & e-administration
Development projects in support of research and education
Open Spires
The Open Spires project has two purposes: to increase the amount of learning content (especially audio and video) released from Oxford, and to enable the University to investigate the implications of making some of this material available as ‘Open Content’ under a Creative Commons or other suitable license. This means that quality educational content will be available for reuse and redistribution by third parties globally, provided that it is used in a non-commercial way and is attributed to its creator. Open Spires is funded from the JISC/HE Academy Open Educational Resources Programme.
Read more on the TALL Blog Open Spires post
Cascade
Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Cascade aims to use technology to enable the Department to respond better to the challenge of the government's Equivalent or Lower Qualification (ELQ) policy by developing new models to transform the delivery of learning for continuing and professional learners.
Learning Design Support Environment for Teachers and Lecturers (LDSE)
Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), LDSE aims to develop an interactive environment - a ‘Learning Design Support Environment’ - to enable teachers to lead the discovery of innovative pedagogical designs that exploit the potential of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) and better integrate TEL in the mainstream provision, processes and practice of educational institutions.
Oxford–Dar-es-Salaam Link for Health
Funded by the Department for International Development (DfID) and the British Council, this DelPHE (Development Partnerships in Higher Education) project - Oxford–Dar-es-Salaam Link for Health: translating knowledge into practice - aims to help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals by developing research, clinical practice and training capacity in support of haematology and blood transfusion services, and users of those services, in Tanzania and the region.
RECIPROCATE
Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), RECIPROCATE (REgional Climate International: PRoviding Online Climatological Applied Training and Education) aims to address the knowledge gap in developing countries regarding regional climate change prediction, and the risks associated with climate change by developing innovative online learning materials.
Completed projects
Isthmus
Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Isthmus explored the implications of integrating institutional and user-owned technologies.
Mosaic
Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Mosaic developed an online course, ‘Voices from Our Past: the Earliest English literature’ by reusing existing online resources.
Open Habitat
Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Open Habitat investigated the challenges of using Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) for teaching, learning and collaboration.
Phoebe
Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Phoebe developed an online pedagogic planning tool to guide practitioners working in post-compulsory education (FE, HE and ACL) to design effective and pedagogically sound learning activities.