Dear colleagues,
The Community Dimensions of Learning Object Repositories project
(CD-LOR) is delighted to announce the release of CD-LOR Deliverable 1:
Report on Learning Communities and Repositories:
http://www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR/CDLORdeliverable1_learningcommunitiesreport.doc
This extensive and detailed report includes a 2-page Executive Summary.
CD-LOR was funded by the JISC from June 2005 until May
2007 to identify and analyse the factors that influence practical
uptake and
implementation of learning object repositories (LORs) within a range of
different learning communities. There has been much
discussion about the
barriers to implementation and use of LORs, but this has not been
tailored to
the needs of specific types of learning communities. Moreover, pedagogical,
social, and
organisational factors have not been at the forefront in LOR
development to
date, and implementation
is still relatively
immature. CD-LOR aims to investigate
these issues in order to develop guidelines tailored for a range of
different
learning communities.
The first CD-LOR deliverable is a report
detailing the findings of initial desk research (including a literature
review) and stakeholder consultation
carried out by the project up to the end of January 2006.
The report is the foundation upon which the
remaining deliverables will be built, and was intended to give an
initial
mapping of types of learning communities to barriers and enablers to
uptake and
embedding of LORs. However, the notion
of “types of learning communities” changed somewhat in the early stages
of the
project, when it became clear that defining and mapping dimensions of
learning communities may be
more useful. While the
report will not be updated, we acknowledge that it is only the
beginning of our understanding of this area. We welcome feedback,
comments and
discussion from the wider educational community throughout the life of
the
project, in order to inform the remaining deliverables.
We also intend to put the
questions based on our community dimensions onto the JISC DigiRep wiki
for wider public discussion and development, so that we may begin
sketching out the Structured Guidelines (CD-LOR Deliverable 9). We'll
let
you know when that becomes available for input.
Regards,
Sarah
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Ms. Sarah Currier
Senior Research Fellow, JISC Digital Repositories Programme:
Project Manager, Community Dimensions of LO Repositories (CD-LOR)
http://www.ic-learning.dundee.ac.uk/projects/CD-LOR/
Support Officer (CETIS), JISC Digital Repositories Programme
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/
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