University of Warwick - The Learning Grid

Lessons Learned

Since The Learning Grid has opened, it has attracted a lot of interest from a number of other national and international institutions. Developments at the University of Warwick have begun to significantly shape the thinking of other university library departments that are beginning to pursue the development of similar facilities.

The responsive nature of the Learning Grid is allowing staff and students at the University of Warwick to continually develop their thinking about learning, service provision and the way courses can be delivered. This coming academic year, we look forward to the introduction of new technologies and new ideas; continued evaluation to allow us to shape future developments and better meet the learning needs of the individuals within our academic community. The possibilities that a resource like the Learning Grid is able to offer us are boundless, the question right now is 'where will it end?'.

As a result of the success of the Learning Grid Warwick opened a satellite facility in February 2006 known as the BioMed Grid which again continues the ethos of student-led inquiry into the fields of medical and biological sciences. Feedback as a result of the Learning Grid has fed into the remodelling of the larger main campus library due to start in 2007. The Learning Grid is primed to become 'the university's incubator for a new generation of collaborative, research-based learning models and practices'.