Short training sessions for OCSLD Friday 12th February 2016 News Simon Llewellyn, OCSLD’s lead Digital Media and Elearning Developer (DMELD) has launched a short series of professional development courses for OCSLD staff on the use of applications that are central to our working practices. He...
FSLT Joining Instructions Monday 18th January 2016 News First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (#fslt16) 20 January – 26 February 2016 Joining Instructions (reposted from George Roberts’ work blog) Hello all Thank you for your interest in First Steps...
Course Design Intensives for TEL in Semester two Friday 4th December 2015 News This is an advance notice, because I am excited about it. OCSLD and the TEL Implementation Team are looking for opportunities to work with course teams in faculties through half-day to one-day workshops looking...
On evaluation design Wednesday 25th November 2015 what we know Some thoughts on my approach to evaluation design. I’ve just finished another internal evaluation of a project. This time it’s the AMORES project (www.amores-project.eu). Reflecting on the evaluation, and the similarities with the previous...
OCSLD News Monday 16th November 2015 News Every month or the Heads of Department have lunch with the VC and run through news from their departments. These tend to focus on external activities: research, consultancy and outreach. Here is what I...
Collaborative workshop in Mexico Tuesday 10th November 2015 News Last week, I attended a workshop entitled, “Training directed to researchers with interest in science and mathematics education”. Its aims are to foster collaborations between Mexican and British researchers and to discuss current and...
Mark Childs, Joining Brookes Thursday 5th November 2015 News As I’ve just started working as a Senior Lecturer in OCSLD (the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development) at Oxford Brookes I felt it was time to start blogging regularly (not trying to...
Launching the Participative Process Review (PPR) tool kit sector wide Tuesday 27th October 2015 News We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Participative Process Review Tool Kit , a collaborative endeavour with the Leadership Foundation in Higher Education through its Innovation and Transformation scheme. This...
OU ‘First in Family’ seminar Monday 26th October 2015 events Neil Currant writes: I am a real fan of one day or half day seminars on interesting topics, especially ones that are free! Add in the additional draw of an academic who I have...
New Lecturers Thursday 24th September 2015 News New lecturers of all ages and career stages give me some of the best experiences of my job. For the very most part these people are (or are seriously trying to appear to be)...
