Oxford University Press unveils a digital classroom teaching aid

Updated on: Monday, February 18, 2013

Oxford University Press (OUP), recently unveiled a digital classroom teaching aid. Oxford Educate, for schools. This aid integrates an e-book with interactive teaching tools and learning materials.

Releasing the aid, Casper Grathwohl, senior vice president, group strategy, said, “Providing teachers with a breadth of high quality materials and support is central to our educational work at OUP. Demand for digital content in classrooms is increasing and we have responded to this with the innovative Oxford Educate programme. Through a variety of interactive video, e-book, and multimedia tools the aid has been designed to capture the imagination of teachers and students alike. We are confident this will enrich the classroom experience and better prepare students for the challenges they face in today’s digital world.”

The aid incorporates a variety of resources including interactive animations, videos, poem and prose animations and audios for ELT courses, instructional slide shows, lesson plans, answer keys, additional worksheets, and image references. Used in conjunction with the embedded tools available on the platform, the interactive resources organised around the digitised course books with page-by-page linkages, will enable teachers to enrich, supplement, and transform teaching-learning in the classroom. It comes with a comprehensive and easy-to-use test generator, an assessment tool designed to benefit teachers by enabling them to create a variety of test papers.

As the interactivities built into the Oxford Educate platform are intrinsically connected to the course book, the teacher can engage students with intensive auditory and visual stimuli in combination with associated learning and testing activities. All in all, it fits in completely with the needs of today’s audio-visual learners and is provided free of cost to schools using the OUP course books.

Oxford University Press unveils a digital classroom teaching aid

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