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Example: Difficulties in learning often arise from an unsuitable environment – inappropriate grouping of students, inflexible teaching styles, or inaccessible curriculum materials. Widening the digital education provision through an increased offering of tools/resources and expanding the centralised support service for digital education will serve to benefit all students. New methods of teaching, learning and assessment... more »

Educators have long been concerned about the lack of personalisation in classrooms which is why technology is so crucial in the delivery of personalised curricula. One of our biggest challenges is maximising the potential of our students as individuals. Many of us teach up to a hundred different learners every day, each with different abilities, learning behaviours and needs. Understanding an individual's learning preferences... more »

Now more than ever, understanding and maintaining a digital identity on the web is a crucial skill for students and academics. There are far too many places where people establish their identities without having any control or ownership of the output and presentation.

What's more this platform would help create Oxford graduates more engaged in global conversations in mature ways that go beyond the transient and contentious... more »

Born digital publications are still published by replicating the look and feel of printed books. Both the Gazette and Oxford Magazine are still published as PDFs prepared for print. But virtually nobody consumes them in print. This makes them harder to produce, distribute, read and also makes them less accessible and their production less sustainable.

And there's so much more documentation from across Oxford that is... more »

Digital wallet in mobile device is now widely recognised as a convenient, secure, and accessible alternative to physical cards. With more and more devices starting to adapt biometric authentication and lost-and-track measures, digital wallet has been proven to be a reliable way for users to store bank cards, tickets, and access tokens.

A number of universities have already started rolling out student IDs that can be... more »

Matrix is a quite cool decentralised instant messaging protocol that a fair few Universities have employed. It would be great if the IT department could host a matrix server for people in the university to use, as an alternative to email. Just to mention some Universities using matrix...

- Dresden University (matrix.tu-dresden.de)

- University of Queensland (chat.uq.edu.au)

- Berkeley University