'Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories' Project
Do you think that you should be paid for making your teaching materials
available to others? This is your chance to influence decisions in this
area and we would like to encourage you to express your views by
responding to our academic survey.
A repository is a database of digital items that are managed, preserved
and accessible to a wide audience. Repositories can contain teaching
materials, e-learning objects, journal articles, theses and much more
besides. The main benefits to an academic institution of setting up and
maintaining a repository are that the intellectual output of the
institution is maintained and preserved. It also acts as a showcase for
that output and can enhance access to scholarly communication.
This project will focus on a variety of issues associated with setting up,
populating and maintaining a repository of high quality teaching materials.
A repository is quite distinct from a Content Management System (CMS) and
Virtual Learning Environment (VLE); they differ in the following ways:
• IR – a store of digital material made open and accessible to a wide
audience.
• CMS – are essentially systems used to manage content. They are typically
used to manage a website.
• VLE – set of learning and teaching tools for curriculum mapping, student
tracking, online support, electronic communication and Internet links to
outside curriculum resources.
The Rights and Rewards in Blended Institutional Repositories Project is
funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). This represents
a cooperative venture between the Department of Information Science (DIS),
the Engineering Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (engCETL)
and Loughborough University Library. The two year project aims to
establish a single Blended repository to meet teaching and research needs,
and to address the motivational issues facing depositors of teaching
materials with a focus on the associated Rights and Rewards:
• Rights – copyright and intellectual property rights
• Rewards – financial and non-financial motivators for making teaching and
supporting materials available in an IR. Benefits to academics might
include a lump sum reward, allocation of budget to spend on teaching items
or access to teaching resources.
The main aims of the questionnaire are:
• to gather information to help develop an experimental repository of high
quality electronic teaching materials at Loughborough University.
• to identify the barriers and incentives that are involved with making
teaching material available in such a repository.
You have been chosen to be part of the sample because of the commitment
you have made to the provision of teaching and learning in UK Higher
Education Institutions.
Please follow the link to access the online questionnaire:
http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk/survey
One lucky person will be drawn at random from the survey results and will
win a 20GB iPOD with iTALK voice recorder! Just enter your email address
at the bottom of the form to be in with a chance. Donated by the
Engineering Education Centre, Loughborough University.
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