JISC

The MUSCLE project will promote inter-institutional sharing of appropriate resources, and foster good practice in learning and teaching in Schools, FE and HE through improved access to learning resources and materials held in disparately located repositories. The services will be built though partnership and collaboration, and reflect the shared vision, remit and experience of stakeholders and partners.

Objectives:

• Develop and make available through partners Learning Environments, a set of learning resources and materials for embedding in their sites.
• Work with content providers to make accessible information not previously available outside the institutional boundary.
• To promote the resources to partner institutions and their staff, and work with them to embed and evaluate the provision.
• To support the intermediaries in their promotion of the resources to their end users.
• To evaluate proposed access to resources and approach to this type of cross-sector provision.
• To identify and develop new methods of sharing resources that meet the needs of stakeholders.

Project Methodology

Pulling together information and offering new means of interacting with existing learning resources, to create new ways of supporting the process of learning and teaching, will build the MUSCLE development.  The project the team will link with interrelated projects, including current, SHELL, RDN Hubs and LTSN sites, the Subject Portals Project, Xgrain, the proposed National JISC Centre of expertise in the planning and implementation of information systems, FE developments, the intended JISC learning objects repository etc. Technical work will be focused appropriately to enable future integration between existing functions and MUSCLE ambitions.

Implications/ Deliverables/ Stakeholders

The project will yield a demonstrable example of an MLE supporting lifelong learning.  Findings will be will be cycled back in an evaluative report focussing on the impact on staff and students on the implications of introducing MLE activities and changing business processes in relation to the project.