Sharing learning resources

• What useful approaches can institutions adopt to both support and enable sharing of learning resources?
• What do you think are the most significant cultural barriers to sharing? Identify some successful and realistic approaches to mitigate these?
• Could a subject-discipline approach be a successful way to encourage sharing of learning resources?

There is an increasing commitment at national policy level to encourage academics and institutions to take content developed elsewhere and adapt it for their own use. Several tools and standards exist to support this re-purposing of existing content but it is often the cultural and legal aspects of sharing content that present barriers to the learning and teaching community. There is actually very little large scale formal sharing but significant instances of small scale sharing with colleagues and collaborators, which is usually the result of issues around trust, ownership and perceptions around quality.

• Further Resources...
• Learning Resources & Activities
• Developing
• Effective Use
• Re-purposing
• Managing