Introduction to the Environmental Change Institute
Introduction to research groups and activities at the Environmental Change Institute.
Engaging Developers with Open Source Projects - Introduction
Open source communities have a reputation for being filled with tigers ready to devour any naive developer foolhardy enough to enter their territory. This introduction dispels this myth and sets the scene for the workshop speakers.
Under the Bonnet: Technical Considerations in Running Open University Podcasting
Ben Hawkridge (Open University) talks about the technical aspect of running a university podcasting service: covering questions such as server management, accessibility issues and analyzing usage statistics.
Under the Bonnet: Technical Considerations in Running Open University Podcasting
Ben Hawkridge (Open University) talks about the technical aspect of running a university podcasting service: covering questions such as server management, accessibility issues and analyzing usage statistics
The Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Natural History
An introduction to the Ashmolean Museum and the Museum of Natural History
Charter 88 and the Constitutional Reform Movement Twenty Years On; discussion
Second part of a Panel discussion held at Portculis House, Westminster, discussing the central strengths and achievements of the Constitutional Reform with questions and comments from the audience
Introduction to Sport at Oxford
A short introduction to sport at Oxford.
Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening
Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening
Statistical Reasoning I Course Lectures
This website contains a collection of lecture examples on topics such as describing data, Stata, sampling variability & confidence intervals, paired t-test & hypothesis testing, comparing means, comparing proportions, and survival analysis.
Richard Gabriel, artist in residence This episde we talk with Richard Gabriel, who lives in the Sandia Mountains of central New Mexico. He is an artisan who works in the style of the early tin workers of the 1800’s. New Mexico has been known for tin artwork for nearly two centuries when the art came from Mexico with the opening of the Santa Fe
Student Newspapers
An introduction to the student newspapers at Oxford University.
Clocked
Submerged under seven feet of floodwater in a small Kansas City cafe, this clock quietly documented the rising tide of one of the most destructive events in the history of the central plains.
Kinetic connections: Bloom's taxonomy in action
An introduction to strategies for using the web to push your students to higher levels of thinking.
Ozark, Alabama Downtown Plan
This document is a city plan for Ozark, Ala. dated October 25, 2007. Contents: Introduction to the plan -- Downtown revitalization concept -- Implementing the concept -- Organization -- Community promotion -- Design -- Economic structure -- Community connections -- Conclusion.
Chief Sitting Bull's Headdress
Chief Sitting Bull was a great leader, a holy man and a central character in North American history. Discover the story as the headdress, shirt and other personal artifacts Sitting Bull once wore are brought out of the ROM's vaults and prepared for temporary display in the Daphne Cockwell Gallery of Canada: First Peoples (beginning September 13, 2008).
"Object orientation" What's it all about?
introduction to object orientation including design and analysis methods, benefits, pros and cons
To appreciate:
what is meant by “object-orientation’
how it arose
why it is a useful approach
Using Portfolio's for Learning and Assessment - A staff handbook
This resource offers guidance for staff on introducing students to portfolios to be used for learning and assessment. It is based on experience gained while working on an FDTL Project “Promoting the Development of key skills through the use of portfolios” (2002 - 2005).
The outlined Portfolio Workshops in this handbook have been developed as a result of the Project activities at Leeds Metropolitan University, but are also supported by the findings from the project as a whole.
There are
ICT Competences Acquisition using the Concorde e-Learning Platform
This communication presents some of the final results obtained in the frame of the EC funded Leonardo da Vinci pilot project with the title "Acquisition of Complementary Competencies through Open and Distance Education" (CONCORDE) and it complements other dissemination papers. Mainly, we focus here on the acquisition of the competences in the information and communication technologies using an innovative pedagogical model implemented at the level of the web platform. The targeted competences res
Using Portfolio's - The Learning Contract
This resource accompanies the workbook 'Using Portfolio's for Learning and Assessment - a staff handbook'.
This resource offers guidance for staff on introducing students to portfolios to be used for learning and assessment. It is based on experience gained while working on an FDTL Project “Promoting the Development of key skills through the use of portfolios” (2002 - 2005).
The outlined Portfolio Workshops in this handbook have been developed as a result of the Project activities at Le
Learning during the first three years of postgraduate employment – The LiNEA Project
In this project then, we’re looking at young graduates in nursing, engineering and accountancy going into their first jobs, and we’re trying to find out what they’re learning, how is that being learnt, and what sort of things affect their learning.
In telling you about our project and the way it is working, I also aim to give you some inkling of what seems to be coming out from the people we’ve already spoken to about higher education, what they’ve derived from it, what they’re abl
