Awards season
It is that time of year where Trinity (ok summer) term is drawing to an end, and thoughts turn to Awards ceremonies. Yesterday at Oxford University we apparently had two sets in one night. I am sure the other awards were fabulous, but of course we attended OxTALENT, Oxford’s awards for teaching and learning enhanced with technology.
As usual it was great chance to find out about cool things going on in the University with IT, teaching and learning, from academic staff, librarians, support staff, students and more. Some interesting themes emerged – clearly physicists are the best podcasters here in Oxford (and if you want to study a course co-written by one of the winners check out our fabulous Exploring the Universe course). There is also a lot of really great work being done to facilitate transition to university. The Maths Bridging course we developed with MPLS was a runner up in this category, an indication of strong field with some excellent work from the Bodleian Libraries.
The day after that event it is worth noting Oxford is also doing well in external awards, with a Hoey Lee winning a grant as part of the JISC Summer of Student Innovation for his project to develop a University Proofreading Exchange. That this entered and won, is no surprise when you see the quality of work in all the student categories at OxTALENT – so congratulations to everyone and I look forward to meeting the winners at future OxTALENT committee meetings.