Project

Aims

CD-LOR aims to investigate barriers and enablers to successful embedding and use of LO repositories, in support of teaching and learning, within a diverse range of learning communities. Such communities include those based in individual and federated institutions and those that exist across institutions (regionally, nationally and internationally), e.g. discipline based communities, or communities coalescing around use in teaching and learning of particular formats, such as sound files.

Objectives

CD-LOR will achieve its aims by:

1. Creating a typology of learning communities, mapping their characteristics in relation to their use (or potential use) of LO repositories.

2. Identifying possible drivers, barriers and enablers to uptake and embedding of LO repositories within such communities.

3. Prioritising, developing, implementing and testing a range of potential solutions to barriers in live test-beds with real learning communities.

4. Producing use cases, case studies and a set of structured guidelines on LO repository implementation within learning communities.

5. Producing recommendations for institutional managers on wider policy, strategy, systems and workflow issues.

6. Investigating and reporting on personal resource management practices and strategies of individual stakeholders within learning communities.

7. Making recommendations to JISC for ongoing research and development.

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This project is funded by JISC as part of the Digital Repositories Programme