Secure personal institutional and inter-institutional repository environment (SPIRE)
The project will focus on the setup and working through of the feasibility
of peer-2-peer (P2P) technologies to aid the design of learning in the UK.
This will be undertaken in three main forms:
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The pragmatic setup and working through of a supported installation and
running of a P2P system (LionShare) for HEis for until March 2007
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Researching the range of working practices and methodologies involved in
combining e-learning courseware authoring with the collaborative
possibilities of a P2P system
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Initial exploration into combining the Reload tool with LionShare
functionality
We expect that these approaches will expose a number of technical and
institutional / policy issues within the UK. The project will then act
as a catalyst for the take up of P2P systems within the UK at both the
technical and methodological levels. The SPIRE project will also propose a
road map for the wider introduction of P2P systems and their strategic
linking with the e-learning landscape in general.
NB- the objectives described above were those at the start of the
project. For a variety of reasons, the installation of Lionshare in
this way was not possible. The SPIRE final
report will detail the reasons for this. As a result, the project
focused on Web2.0 more broadly, and conducted a major survey of tutors'
and students' use of Web2.0 services.
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