JISC

Final report from this study

The aim of the study is to summarise the findings from a range of JISC projects, with respect to the following types of issue that are relevant to the development, use and sharing of e-learning content:

• Organisational including staff development and training, the evolution of institutional and other policies, and organisational practice such as the use of multi-disciplinary teaching teams, institutional and other repositories, and the role of the learning technologist
• Cultural including academic culture and practice within and between disciplines, student culture and practice, the cultures of support services, and those of particular sectors and sub-sectors such as further education colleges, ‘old’ universities, ‘new’ universities, ‘research-led’ universities
• Legal including both actual and perceived concerns relating to intellectual property rights, licensing, practices and policies related to attribution, and the management of legal risk within institutions
• Pedagogic including instructional approaches used, and the ways in which the development, use and sharing of e-learning content fits with these, or does not
• Technical including metadata and interoperability, any move toward more service-oriented approaches, embedding systems within the institutional and inter-institutional contexts.

The projects in scope for this synthesis and review are taken from the following JISC development programmes:

•  Digital Repositories
•  Digital Libraries in the Classroom
•  Distributed eLearning
•  Exchange for Learning (X4L)

In addition, projects funded by the Scottish Funding Councils for Further and Higher Education as e-learning transformation projects are in scope, as is development work by the Jorum.

The study reviews and synthesises the work of various specified projects and programmes engaged in the development, use and sharing of elearning content. The study supports JISC in planning future funding calls and further the disseminates programme outcomes.