A very honest review of my Oxford University master's degree (theoretical physics at keble college) by alicedoesphysics (2020)
Source. Basically all her courses are from the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, and therefore show up at the Moodle of the Oxford Mathematics Institute of Oxford.Currently a redirect page on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/?title=Department_of_Statistics,_University_of_Oxford&redirect=no Newbies!
Why is this not part of the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford? Who knows!
Mathematics and Computer science course of the University of Oxford Updated 2024-12-15 +Created 1970-01-01
Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/mathematics-and-computer-science
A mixed cross department course with the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MMathCompSci. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".
Mathematics and Computer Science at Oxford University by University of Oxford (2017)
Source. Things actually have gotten more and more closed, e.g. of stuff getting paywalled with time:
It appears that things got really bad starting in 2017, possibly when WebLearn was introduced. When things migrated to Canvas, they were closed by default, apparently with any mechanism to publish publicly.
Therefore, they managed to make things more closed than when teachers would just upload to good old
ox.ac.uk/~name static websites!!Ciro Santilli has also heard that some people in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford opposed to moving away from their Moodle instance precisely because the new options did not support open publishing, so kudos to those people. But most teachers likely don't care and just do whatever is the best internally supported default.
Their "open" video material: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ A somewhat small part is Creative Commons, but most proprietary. Despite the name "podcasts", they do contain video, it is just a relic.
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/open contains actual Creative Commons only it seems.
It does however appear that professors own their lecture notes, so there some hope maybe: governance.admin.ox.ac.uk/legislation/statute-xvi-property-contracts-and-trusts#collapse1383636
Talks: talks.ox.ac.uk/. Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) subset: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/department/id/oxpoints:23232639
Moodle instance of the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.
Has a mixture of open access and closed access. But at least it can have open access unlike the in-house systems such as Canvas where everything is necessarily paywalled!
Sometimes things appear open but don't show any meaningful content if you are not logged in, which is annoying.
But at least it gives a clear public course list, thing that certain departments (cough Department of Physics of the University of Oxford cough).
The organization is a bit crap, when you expand e.g. C Michaelmas term it shows nothing, just a search.
The way to go is via the year year categories e.g. "Year 2022-23": courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/index.php?categoryid=734. Term splitting is annoying, but one can stand it.
There seems to be no way to list all versions of a single course across multiple years besides just doing a search e.g.