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Celebrating 20 million downloads from Oxford on iTunes U
In February we celebrated a milestone in open education at Oxford with more than 20 million downloads from Oxford’s iTunes U site. This media site features free audio and video podcasts from across the University.
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There are now more than 2,000 hours of material – more than any other UK university – and popular talks become global hits because people in more than 185 countries look at them.
Recent additions include Food Governance, StarGazing, Human Rights and Migration, Big Data, Medical Research, and Life-Writing and Portraiture. |
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Great Writers Inspire – open educational ebooks, lectures and essays
Open educational resources are collections of digital materials designed to be shared for teaching, learning and research. Freely available on the web via open licenses such as Creative Commons, these resources include course materials, ebooks, essays, journal articles, digital images, music and video clips.
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At Oxford, a team in IT Services has been developing Great Writers Inspire, a website that brings together more than 3,000 ebooks alongside downloadable lectures and scholarly essays. As well as sections arranged by period, there are 'approaches to literature' pages which illustrate how these resources can be used as a starting point for exploration, especially for discussion in the classroom. |
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Explore Oxford's International Selection
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IT Services has created a new area on the University’s podcasting website to showcase our open educational projects and in particular to promote a selection of introductory lecture material that would appeal to an international audience. |
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Christmas project was good value for money!
The Public Affairs Directorate has been making online Christmas Cards for the past four years and the latest one was the most popular yet.
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With the help of The Queen's College choir, our filmmaker Tom Wilkinson, the Student Web Media Team and Oxford shoppers braving the drizzle, we staged a flash mob choral performance in Broad Street and Bonn Square. The video was watched more than 169,000 times during the Christmas period. Not bad for a fifty pound budget! |
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Very Short Film Competition
Three Oxford students (Sally, Mark and Garlen) are in the final 12 of the Guardian's Very Short Film Competition.
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The live final will take place at the Guardian offices on 20 March!
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