Dave raises some interesting points in his posting...
My personal view is that content sharing is more likely to take
place within a single institution or consortium than between
'competing' institutions. Particularly where it is possible to identify
core components common to many schools or departments.
Research Methods is one example where organisation efficiency
and quality standards might benefit from a core curriculum that
could be used in conjunction with 'bolt on' specialist contexts.
Having said that I have found that vested interest, pride, etc do
sometimes get in the way of collaboration and sharing and
satisfying organisational goals will be challenged by proponents of
educational determinism.
I believe that interoperability will become important for authors who
move on to other institutions and wish to take some or all of their
work to be reused or repurposed and for those institutions or
consortiums supporting more than one corporate VLE or needing to
migrate content from one e-system to another.
Buying-in content is always a difficult one due to the perceived
uniqueness of course aims and objectives and can be difficult
where accessibility issues for instance have not been taken into
account by the originator. Recent Learning Object models (Powell,
2004 and Malkovic & Zeilman, 2004) suggest that the more
complex the Learning Object becomes the more suitable it is for
selling or using "off the shelf" but less suitable for repurposing.
Shirley
Date sent: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:03:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [VLES] Share resources
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> I am curious about how practitioners see this sharing of course
> materials developing. Assuming content exchange standards and
> mechanisms continue to develop and be adopted as they clearly are,
> will there be the widespread sharing of content between what might be
> considered to be competing organisations? Can we see, some time in the
> future, institutions obtaining (free or purchased) content from other
> institutions to avoid having to author their own or will there forever
> be issues of secrecy, IPR and (for want of a better word) pride which
> will prevent this?
>
> Purely in the interests of debate, I would suggest that with the
> ever-increasing likelihood of variable fees and the opening up of a
> true higher education "market", the kind of mechanisms being discussed
> here could be put to use to add value to courses while perhaps keeping
> costs down. By buying in content, education providers can focus their
> efforts on guiding and supporting their students.
>
> Can we ever see this being a realistic model for FE/HE (or any other
> education sector, for that matter)?
>
> Dave
>
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