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Managing resources Dr Greg Benfield OCSLD
Managing resources
Dr Greg BenfieldOCSLD
Betty Collis, Netherlands
“People engage in activities with resources”
Reusability
“The reusability of learning resources offers many advantages to all stakeholders in the learning process and is now considered an important factor in any learning process” (Oliver 2005).
“Numerous national and international initiatives have been funded to investigate ways in which digital learning resources might be developed, shared and reused by teachers and learners around the world (so as to benefit from economies of scale). Behind these initiatives lies a vision of a future in which reusable resources… could comprise a new currency of exchange within a learning economy” (Littlejohn & Shum 2003).
Littlejohn, A. and Shum, S. B. (2003) (eds) Reusing Online Resources (special issue) Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2003, online at www-jime.opne.ac.uk/2003/1/
Oliver, R. (2005). 'Quality assurance and e-learning: blue skies and pragmatism.'
ALT-J 13(3). September 2005, 173-187
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From Littlejohn, A. (2003) (ed) Reusing Online Resources. Kogan Page
Reusing Online Resources
The learning object approach
RLOs: some examples
1. University of Nottingham School of Nursing Educational Technology Group (SONET)
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/index.php
2. JORUM national RLO repository
http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
3. RADAR (Oxford Brookes University)
https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/access/home.do?
LMS drawing in consistent, up-to-date course information
Course identities in Moodle
Course level Moodle sites automatically generated and populated with students
Course teams to consider how best to use them Current examples:
modulke and course reviews
past exam papersfaculty NSS action plans
student handbookscourse level forumsevents adverts
Flipped classrooms
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7081.pdf
Activities
1. How can you use Talis Aspire reading lists to engage students with reading activities?
2. What resources and activities best belong in course level Moodle spaces?
