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    • Medieval Manuscripts, IIIF and the History of Medicine on Cabinet

      7 May 2019

      Author:

      Sarah Griffin

      Cabinet is well known across Oxford for the three-dimensional models of museum objects that we create to promote teaching with material culture. While these models are an effective way ...
      Read More Medieval Manuscripts, IIIF and the History of Medicine on Cabinet

    • Notes on Analytical Engineering: Software and method for researching AI and Lifelong Learning

      25 June 2018

      Author:

      Cory Salveson

      In this post, we describe the tools and techniques we’re using throughout the project and why. We also show how you can get started using the same. Beginning with ...
      Read More Notes on Analytical Engineering: Software and method for researching AI and Lifelong Learning

    • Understanding the potential of AI for lifelong learning: The need for a critical perspective

      13 June 2018

      Authors:

      Rebecca Eynon
      Huw Davies
      Cory Salveson

      The so-called “eternal spring” of AI has given new life to an old dream about supercharging human learning. From personalised teaching assistants to systems that “train” the brain directly, ...
      Read More Understanding the potential of AI for lifelong learning: The need for a critical perspective

    • Why we shouldn’t be pathologizing online gaming before the evidence is in

      10 October 2017

      Author:

      Andrew Przybylski

      There are active debates surrounding Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), however, a new study suggests that it may not, in itself, be robustly associated with important clinical outcomes. Internet-based video ...
      Read More Why we shouldn’t be pathologizing online gaming before the evidence is in

    • From private profit to public liabilities: how platform capitalism’s business model works for children

      14 September 2017

      Author:

      Huw Davies

      Young people choose to use platforms for play, socialising and expressing their identity. Image by Brad Flickinger (Flickr: CC BY 2.0) Two concepts have recently emerged that invite us to ...
      Read More From private profit to public liabilities: how platform capitalism’s business model works for children

    • Design ethics for gender-based violence and safety technologies

      25 July 2017

      Author:

      Ben Zevenbergen

      Digital technologies are increasingly proposed as innovative solution to the problems and threats faced by vulnerable groups such as children, women, and LGBTQ people. However, there exists a structural ...
      Read More Design ethics for gender-based violence and safety technologies

    • Cyberbullying is far less prevalent than offline bullying, but still needs addressing

      12 July 2017

      Author:

      Andrew Przybylski

      Schools and parents play an important role in educating children about cyberbullying. Credit: Pasco County Schools (Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0). Bullying is a major public health problem, with systematic ...
      Read More Cyberbullying is far less prevalent than offline bullying, but still needs addressing

    • Everything you need to know about Cabinet in under six minutes…

      20 June 2017

      Author:

      Kathryn Eccles

      Last week, the Oxford University Museums Partnership in collaboration with the Digital Learning Network put on a fantastic event on Digital Learning in Museums.  The event was focused on ...
      Read More Everything you need to know about Cabinet in under six minutes…

    • Social media is nothing like drugs, despite all the horror stories

      19 June 2017

      Author:

      Andrew Przybylski

      Letting your child use social media is like giving them cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes – all at once, or so we’re told. If you have been following recent press ...
      Read More Social media is nothing like drugs, despite all the horror stories

    • How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?

      10 May 2017

      Author:

      Huw Davies

      “Whether your child is an artist, a storyteller, a singer or a scientist, I’m the lovable little friend that will bring that out!” says the FisherPrice Smart Bear. Everyone ...
      Read More How and why is children’s digital data being harvested?

    • We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare

      20 April 2017

      Author:

      Matt Willis

      Image by TheeErin (Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), who writes: “Working on a national cancer research project. This is the usual volume of mail that comes in two-days time.” In ...
      Read More We should look to automation to relieve the current pressures on healthcare

    • Tackling Digital Inequality: Why We Have to Think Bigger

      15 March 2017

      Authors:

      Huw Davies
      Rebecca Eynon

      Outcomes of the many schemes financed by the government to address digital inequalities are rarely uniformly positive or transformative for the people involved. Image: iPad by Sean MacEntee (Flickr). ...
      Read More Tackling Digital Inequality: Why We Have to Think Bigger

    • Gaming addiction: it may not be as much of a crisis as some expect

      3 March 2017

      Author:

      Andrew Przybylski

      Few activities stir the imagination or popular concern more than video gaming. Nearly all young people in the UK now regularly play games – four in five of those ...
      Read More Gaming addiction: it may not be as much of a crisis as some expect

    • A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others

      19 September 2016

      Author:

      Bill Dutton

      The Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University had one of its (now) annual retreats on a beautiful Friday in the clubhouse of a local golf course. ...
      Read More A Virtual Professor: Putting Herself in the Hands of Others

    • Two years after the NYT’s ‘Year of the MOOC’: how much do we actually know about them?

      13 November 2014

      Author:

      Rebecca Eynon

      Despite the speculation about the role massively open online courses (MOOCs) may play in higher education, empirical research that explores the realities of interacting and learning in MOOCs is ...
      Read More Two years after the NYT’s ‘Year of the MOOC’: how much do we actually know about them?

    • What does the recent LA School District “iPads-for-all” debacle tell us about the structural changes gripping the US K-12 educational system?

      7 November 2014

      Author:

      Paige Mustain

      In the realm of education and technology, a central question of concern to both researchers and policymakers is why there continues to be such vast amounts of resources invested ...
      Read More What does the recent LA School District “iPads-for-all” debacle tell us about the structural changes gripping the US K-12 educational system?

    • What are the limitations of learning at scale? Investigating information diffusion and network vulnerability in MOOCs

      21 October 2014

      Author:

      Rebecca Eynon

      Despite the speculation about the role massively open online courses (MOOCs) may play in higher education, empirical research that explores the realities of interacting and learning in MOOCs is ...
      Read More What are the limitations of learning at scale? Investigating information diffusion and network vulnerability in MOOCs

    • Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research

      29 July 2014

      Author:

      Victoria Nash

      Child Internet safety is a topic that continues to gain a great deal of media coverage and policy attention: but online risk and harm are not equivalent and should ...
      Read More Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research

    • Fieldwork in B4RN land

      12 July 2014

      Author:

      Anne-marie Oostveen

      On the 9th and 10th of July we travelled up North to meet the people of B4RN, a community-owned fibre network in Lancashire providing future-proof full fibre connections to rural ...
      Read More Fieldwork in B4RN land

    • UK teenagers without the Internet are ‘educationally disadvantaged’

      22 December 2012

      Author:

      Rebecca Eynon

      This is a repost of a University of Oxford press release reporting on work by Rebecca Eynon (OII) and Chris Davies (Dept of Education, Univ. Oxford) on how teenagers ...
      Read More UK teenagers without the Internet are ‘educationally disadvantaged’

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