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Sent: 10 June 2011 12:13
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Subject: Future of NLN materials
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We have been asked to circulate the following information about the
transition of the National Learning Network (NLN) materials service to
LSIS.
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The future of the National Learning Network materials service
1. Will the National Learning Network (NLN) materials service
continue to operate for the foreseeable future?
YES.
LSIS have worked with Xtensis, who developed the service under the
contract with JANET(UK), to ensure its continued operation for the next
two years.
The site will be run by LSIS from July 22nd. Xtensis has kindly granted a
free license to use the software that delivers the site, so it will look
and perform the same as it does now.
The current service is funded until summer 2011. From that point it will
be taken over by LSIS.
An LSIS survey in December last year confirmed that:
· practitioners continue to value the materials themselves and
the service;
· a large body of learning in college and other provider VLEs
contains embedded links to the site that would have to be reworked if
the site closed
2. How will it work?
Exactly the same as it does now:
· the NLN materials will continue to be available at
www.nln.ac.uk<http://www.nln.ac.uk> .
· all existing links to links to the site – Learner URLs, VLE
links and Noodle links – will continue to work as now .
· individual Learning Objects (LOs) and Permanent Collections will
still be available for download.
3. What will change?
There will no longer be:
· registration and/login .
· the facility to create collections
Users who want to create new collections or store any pre-existing
collections associated with their login can copy them across to a new
service provided by Xtensis, called XtLearn.
4. What happens now?
The site will be run by Xtensis until summer, when there will be a formal
handover to LSIS. Work has already started on the new version of the site.
Some users may be contacted over the next few months and asked to test it
out ahead of the official launch in July.
5. What next?
Some of the materials no longer work, either technically because they were
based on redundant technology, or in terms of their content
(old-fashioned, outdated practice etc). The LSIS survey identified a wish
by users to see them brought up to scratch. It also identified members of
the community who would be willing to join or lead such developments. LSIS
will work with partners to facilitate these developments as far as is
practicable.
LSIS
10 June 2011
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Kind regards
Helen M
Helen Metcalfe
Events & Administration Coordinator
JISC RSC Northwest
Lancaster University
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