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Lucy Tallents wins the OxTALENT 2015 WebLearn category

Following her success in the Teaching With Sakai Innovation Awards last month, Lucy Tallents has won the category of ‘Use of WebLearn to support teaching, learning or outreach’ in the OxTALENT 2015 awards.  http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/oxtalent/2015/06/16/use-of-weblearn-to-support-teaching-learning-or-outreach/

The OxTALENT awards celebrate and reward the innovative use of technology in teaching, learning, research, and outreach at Oxford.  The WebLearn category seeks examples of using this virtual learning environment in innovative ways to support online study and interaction as part of a programme of study at undergraduate or graduate level.

Lucy is an enthusiastic adopter of the new Lessons tool in WebLearn, and has made pioneering strides in its use at Oxford. The Lessons tool allows a tutor to plan a pathway through activities and learning materials, embedding multi-media resources, discussions and tests.  Students can create their own pages and collaborate on tasks, evaluating each other’s work in a process that develops their professional judgement.  Lucy also uses the Questions facility of the Lessons tool to test understanding, prompt reflection and poll the opinions of the group.

Lucy was invited to speak about her work at the awards ceremony.  She has created a public WebLearn site to demonstrate some of her teaching activities, and explain what she believes the benefits of the Lessons tool are for teaching and learning.  You can visit her site, and even contribute to one of her teaching datasets here: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/mpls/xmpls/wildcru/demo