1. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education JISC LEARNING MATERIALS ACTIVITY Susan Eales & Caroline Ingram JISC London Team

2. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Overview World’s largest and most diverse e-collection for education Quality published resources JISC Services Collection Strategy Working Groups Exchange for Learning (X4L)

3. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Collections multimedia moving images journals bibliographies sound images Indexed websites Maps abstracts Learning Materials catalogues

4. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education SCREENSHOT OF COLLECTIONS PAGE

5. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education SCREENSHOT OF SCRAN HOMEPAGE

6. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education SCREENSHOT OF SCRAN SELECTION

7. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education SCREENSHOT OF SCRAN IMAGE

8. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Resource Discovery Network (RDN) – Embedding into college or university homepages – Behind the Headlines – Virtual Training Suite

9. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education SCREENSHOT OF RDN-I

10. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education SCREENSHOT OF BEHIND THE HEADLINES

11. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education SCREENSHOT OF VTS

12. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Collection Strategy (1) Developed in consultation with people in both FE and HE More pro-active, less re-active Explicit support for learning, teaching, and research New working groups provide a framework for joining-up local, regional and national activities

13. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Collection Strategy (2) 8 collecting areas – Bookspriority – Discovery Tools – Geospatial Resources – Imagespriority – Journals – Learning Materialspriority – Moving Pictures and Soundpriority – Primary Research Data

14. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Learning Materials Working Group Subject Liaison Consultancy Projects to create learning materials from existing content Involved in X4L

15. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Moving Pictures & Sound Managing agent New collections October 2002 Free upon registration

16. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Current Development Programmes Learning and Teaching Programme – 45 projects, 2000-2003 – £10.5M funding – developing learning materials, enhancing existing JISC services, creating new content Exchange for Learning (X4L) – Digital content has been created which could be re-used for learning, 2002-2005 – We would like the community to experiment with re-purposing digital content i.e. see how it can be used again in a different way What is a different way? – For different curriculum/subject areas – For different levels within a subject – For independent learning and project work – Results of first call soon!

17. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education X4L is important because... IPR and Copyright issues can be tackled through partnership with owners and providers of digital content We need to understand more about how digital content can be used in learning and teaching HOW? – By providing case studies of how easy or difficult it is to re-use content and why – To look at how you need to tag existing digital content to be able to re-purpose it and to define learning objects – To look at how you can share the results of project funding by adding work to a repository for others to access – To look at how the content can be used in an MLE/VLE

18. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education …and also... It’s about – Cultural change – Imaginative thinking! – Developing communities of interest/expertise – Getting more project work happening in the community It has the potential to… – rapidly increase the range of learning objects available – help us to understand the role of re-purposing as a content generation strategy for the future – help inform JISC strategy for the future...

19. Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting UK Further and Higher Education Further Information… JISC Collections – www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/licensing.html RDN – www.rdn.ac.uk Virtual Training Suite – www.vts.rdn.ac.uk X4L coming soon… – Christopher.pressler@kcl.ac.uk Susan Eales – Susan.eales@kcl.ac.uk Caroline Ingram – Caroline.ingram@kcl.ac.uk