The aim of the work of the JISC eLearning Team in the Learning Resources and Activities (LRA) domain is to develop effective practice in the creation and use of learning resources and activities through the co-ordination of existing and new work across JISC programme areas, and to provide effective dissemination of lessons learned. We also seek to provide guidance for institutions on effective practice in this area.
Wide-ranging Open Educational Content pilot programme recently announced by JISC, the HE Academy and HEFCE.
We work alongside the JISC Information Environment Team, the JISC eResources Team and JISC Collections around many aspects of this domain.
e-Learning resources are interpreted in their broadest sense and can include a wide range of materials, from runnable learning designs and case studies that illustrate pedagogical approaches, to question banks of multiple choice items, images, multimedia, tools or learning objects. It is the use in context of any given object or activity that is important. Quality of content can be considered in several ways including fitness for purpose, technical quality (compliance with standards, accessibility guidelines), visual or audio quality, or legality.
Li Yuang, Sheila MacNeill and Wilbert Kraan at JISC CETIS have produced an excellent briefing document on Open Educational Resources, now available from CETIS. This is a great introduction to this rapidly growing area, and has been produced by staff involved with the CETIS Educational Content SIG.
Our priorities in this area are to:
- Advise the community on technical and educational issues related to the use of learning content, including student created and web 2.0 content.
- Explore the potential of semantic technologies to enable more effective use of learning resources and more effective design of learning and teaching activities
- Explore how learners can be supported to create, adapt and share resources, design their own goals and activities and chart their own learning paths
- Ensure that staff and students can effectively use, reuse, share and repurpose existing and new content
- Explore processes and workflows relating to content repurposing in specific curriculum contexts
- Explore the range of learning literacies currently required and likely to be required in the future
- Support staff in identifying appropriate content for use, reuse and repurposing; taking into account issues around copyright, metadata, managed digital assets and content retrieval
- Maintain a watching brief on interoperability standards related to content, and support the development of open standards - and content and tools compliant to these standards
- Ensure outputs and lessons from relevent funded projects are communicated to institutional and other decision makers in a timely and relevant fashion.
- Provide evidence to support a business case for sharing and re-use, tackling for example concerns over IPR, recognition and reward, data security
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