Oxford's IT in Teaching and Learning Awards 2006

Winners

1. "Formative assessment"
   • Formative Assessment in the Medical Sciences Division
     Medical  Science IT team
     Medical Sciences uses the WebLearn VLE to structure learning activities for pre-clinical students; formative assessments are included in teaching materials in a variety of ways. To demonstrate the range of resources available to create on-line assessments for academic staff, we have created the following resource for staff in WebLearn:
     http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/medsci/staffonly/staffgen/assess/
     
   • Runner-up
     Msc Integrated Immunology
     
     
2. Teaching and Learning
   • Diabetes Stories
     Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
     This website presents audio recordings of the life-stories of 50 people diagnosed with diabetes between 1927 and 1997. They talk with passion and humour about their daily lives and provide a unique oral history of what it was like to have diabetes during the twentieth century.
     http://www.diabetes-stories.co.uk
     
   • Runners-up
     TeaLeaves: Traces from Physiological Concepts
     Piers Nye
     TeaLeaves displays experimental traces recorded from human subjects exercising on a bicycle. It encourages students to look creatively at respiratory and cardiovascular traces obtained from human subjects and to ask, and answer, questions about the relationships between the behaviour of the lungs and heart.
     http://users.ox.ac.uk/~nye/index.htm
     
   • Web-based learning resource on the poem 'Cahier d'un retour au pays natal' by Aimé Césaire
     Louise Hardwick
     Online learning resource for First Year French students on the set text 'Cahier d'un retour au pays natal' featuring glossed passages for commentary practice, background information on Caribbean history and Negritude and images.
     
3. Student Projects
   • Critical Trauma Management
     Jessica Mather-Hillon
     This Website complements two student-led sessions looking at the management of a trauma patient. The first demonstrates management of a trauma victim; in the second students manage trauma cases themselves.
     http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/medsci/undergrad/medicine/year5/stud_yr5/hillon/
     
   • Runner-up
     Pheromones Uncovered: Scientific Film-making module
     2nd-Year Engineering students
     http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/~labfilm/cwm2006/team_b/index.html
     
4. Administration, support services or research
   • The Workhouse
     Peter Higginbotham
     This Website is a comprehensive resource about the history of the workhouse in the British Isles. It currently contains over 2000 web pages, 4000 photos and illustrations, and transcriptions of important documents e.g. the 1834 Poor Law Act. It has become widely used by schools and colleges, and local and family historians.
     http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse
     
   • Runner-up
     Bodleian Law Library Website
     http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/law
     
5. ** Special award for best Teaching and Learning project created
   with assistance
   
   • The Basics of Climate Prediction
     This CD-ROM explains the science behind climate change prediction, looking at what affects climate, why it's so complicated and climate predications. It was designed as an educational tool and has been distributed to schools.
     http://www.begbroke.ox.ac.uk/climate
     
   • Runner-up
     MedLearn: Simple Interactive Content Authoring
     Philip Rees & Medical  Science IT team
     
     MedLearn gives academic staff the freedom to create interactive on-line learning materials without the burden of working with complex authoring systems or relying on dedicated learning technologists to process the materials on their behalf. With minimal training they are able to mix richly formatted text, library images and formative questions in well structured web pages.
     http://users.ox.ac.uk/~temp0044/medlearn/medLearn.htm