William H. Dutton

Jack Nilles has argued that there is a renaissance in e-learning from the perspective of a scientist who has followed this area for decades. http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/ee-Learning%20Renaissance.pdf His argument, in part, is that there has been a transition from online education as an experiment for universities to a necessity if universities are to respond to the [...]

Bloggers are having fun with a report in The Sun that Elton John reportedly ‘wants the Internet closed down’ because it is distracting individuals from real communication, and creativity, such as writing music at the piano. What he is actually reported as saying was: ‘I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut [...]

We are inviting applications from the global South to fill two places
on our Civil Society Practitioners Programme (CSPP). This visitor
programme is intended for Civil Society Practitioners of distinction
or outstanding promise who wish to visit the Oxford Internet Institute
(OII) for a period of six weeks between February and December 2008,
to undertake research concerning the social impact [...]

The Oxford e-Social Science Project (OeSS), part of the National Centre for e-Social Science, has been asked to organize a session on research ethics at the 2008 ESRC Research Methods Festival from 30 June to 3 July 2008. It will be held at St Catherine’s College, Oxford, as was the previous festival in 2006, see: [...]