JISC

Managing learning resources

Approaches to managing learning resources range from formal repositories at national, regional and subject discipline level, to those of students managing their own resources on their desktops to support formal and self-directed learning. Cultural and legal issues relating to sharing and re-use of content are significant drivers and barriers to the way institutions approach this activity. A wide range of technical issues have been addressed in this area ranging from metadata, current awareness via feeds, repository interfaces, harvesting and resource discovery, user authentication, and access to resources held in repositories.

Session Facilitator: David Findlay (DLiC Review Panel, previously JLT member)

• How far the can the vision of open content be a reality given the current cultural, technical and legal issues? Patrick McAndrew (Developing Learning Design, D4L programme)
• Are user generated stores of content such as those found on flickr and YouTube superseding the need for formal repositories in providing education materials? Iain Wallace (Spoken Word project, DLiC programme)
• How can we balance the varying approaches to producing and maintaining metadata to support effective resource discovery? Phil Barker, CETIS