Developing an effective, accessible and sustainable digital repository of OLT learning and teaching resources : final report.
This project aimed to provide the Department with a roadmap for its Resource Library, an online repository containing resources emanating from the projects funded by the OLT and its predecessors. The roadmap is to address both technical and management considerations in order to ensure the repository...
| Institutions: | Charles Sturt University Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) |
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Australia. Dept of Education and Training (DET)
2016
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| Accesso online: | /resources/Hider_Secondment_Report_2016.pdf |
| Riassunto: | This project aimed to provide the Department with a roadmap for its Resource Library, an online repository containing resources emanating from the projects funded by the OLT and its predecessors. The roadmap is to address both technical and management considerations in order to ensure the repository's sustainability and engagement with the higher education learning and teaching community in Australia and beyond. The project conducted a literature review and prepared a briefing paper for participants in a nationwide consultation exercise around the future of the Resource Library. Over 70 leaders and experts in university learning and teaching, and in scholarly repositories, attended focus group sessions held in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, and online, while over 100 respondents took part in an online questionnaire survey. The consultation confirmed that the higher education community wished to see the Resource Library collection remain freely accessible on an ongoing basis, to allow for the full return on the investments made by the OLT and its predecessors. There was less interest in a broader repository of learning and teaching resources, with concerns raised over quality control and duplication of effort. The consultation also confirmed the expectation that the Resource Library offer standard repository features, which would entail a migration from its current platform. A list of specifications was drawn up, and included in this report for the basis of a work plan. In the absence of an OLT successor, the project team received expressions of interest in hosting and managing the migrated Resource Library from several organisations from within the Australian higher education community. It is recommended that the Department consider outsourcing the migration and hosting of the Resource Library. This may involve a commercial repository hosting service, and include a commitment to the professional indexing of the resources from OLT projects still to be completed. The project recommends that the Department consider also funding an additional project to collect materials from the websites of past projects, to supplement the repository's content. Further, collaboration between the department and one or more higher education organisations is important to implement the awareness and engagement plan outlined in this report, and appoint discipline and institutional champions to disseminate reports and other information about the repository. The Department or the organisation hosting the repository should hold regular face-to-face and online events that invite Fellows, grant recipients and project participants to meet, present their work, and contribute updated and value- added material for the repository, which should acknowledge its current name and brand. [Executive summary, ed] |
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| ISBN: | 9781760510589 (pdf) 9781760510589 (pdf) |
