Sharing Digital Material for eLearning & Plenary Sessions
Manchester 5th & 6th June 2007

Get the technology right and the culture and policy will change¦were trying to be implementers of the eFramework¦ resistance to abstracting out services¦reticence to depend on other peoples services¦best holistic for implementing a standard is simplicity and an active adoption community¦users want repositories to work like websites¦problems are cultural not technological¦I assume the framework people will provide guidance on which standards to adopt¦ who cares whats lost¦it doesnt matter¦institutional boundaries are blurring¦what should institutions be facilitating¦we think of repositories as only having come along with e-learning…librarians have been grappling with these ideas for thousands of years¦cant simply institutionalise web based paradigms¦need appropriate levels of security¦opening up archives for educational use¦Britains intelligent conversation¦web based services are there, they work and the are appropriate to use¦perceptions of storage and safety were paramount and individual¦tutors are happy to provide personal metadata¦concern over loss of control and misappropriation of resources¦the vast majority of people will give you permission to use stuff for education¦repositories can save us from mish-mash and mess¦why dont learning object repositories facilitate version control¦bring management into the realm of the personal¦lack of innovation in teaching¦support departments are not necessarily supportive¦be flexible and modular about the way you build things¦deliver content to students in the way they want to learn¦the repository of the future is a very smart search¦my repository is Google¦anonymity vs pseudonymity¦student identity is less tied up with the institution¦academics have more allegiance to their subject than their institution¦fluid identity¦the authoritative voice¦whats hot in pigs¦users want it to be legal, or nearly legal¦need formalised metadata and canonical syntax and semantics¦we dont like it to be too informal¦take this forward for wealth creation and improved quality of life¦home brew systems¦DC syntax and semantics are not sufficiently formal¦there are people in the loop¦the easiest way of doing things is not always the best way¦pool them dont type them¦flexible coordinated force¦the more metadata you have the better¦creative vs legal balance¦religious, commercial, professional or labour groups¦how can we make things better?…sensitive to the needs of the community¦transient is a better word than incoherent¦IPR, DRM and all these things were not really interested in on the elearning side of things¦curators see the repository much more in isolation¦curators see single communities, users see multiple communities¦the things that floated to the surface were technical things¦

Worries about academic identity¦nothing fundamentally new about repositories¦we have to be careful about the competitive position of our universities¦whod have thought vles would have become so common¦making things more wanted¦move from model where teaching is dominated by individuals to one dominated by teams¦its all about embedding change¦the web is embedded in day to day practice¦there is change that comes at us¦were the spear head of this¦you cant embed if youre not wanted¦techies with new toys to play with foist them on others as a good thing to use¦user requirements analysis needs to be ongoing¦students are key users¦what should institutions do given the potential for mayhem?¦solve problems at a national not institutional level¦will these services become part of the landscape¦universities give the impression that they dont understand that teaching and learning is their core business¦worse still, you have to involve the senior management¦authority, integrity and quality assurance¦capitalise on complementarity¦its not a personal learning environment, its a personal information environment¦if you teach its very hard to use web 2.0 things, you dont have the time¦things embed instantly if theyre useful¦vles are a solution to a management problem¦you dont want to learn another system¦some new services are a facsimile of an existing paradigm¦what is it the university can do best¦librarians, if only there were more of them¦shift emphasis back to teaching staff¦change the working practices of senior managers¦have to know what we want to achieve and make sure the right people are there to achieve it¦stop using pseudo business models¦value is in process, not in materials…academics thought they knew what the deal was¦hesitate to use the word stagnated¦sack the lot of them¦the roadmap goes to 2010¦open access mandates are not enough¦without licensing there is no open access¦lets just do it¦OAI-ORE¦going from practice into theory¦the end is the wellbeing of the entire academic process¦the tide is with us¦we are incredibly fortunate to have the JISC¦who pays for this way into the future¦the repositories programme is a failure because wheres the content?…lets take more risks¦more responsive mode calls¦relationships of trust¦incentives to share learning materials¦global and institutional services¦metadata vs tagging¦worthy but dull…more risk taking…huge strides made variously…

Iain Wallace, Colin Milligan, Tom Franklin, Caroline Breslin, Howard Noble, David White, Anne Gamble, Keith Jeffries, Drummond Bone, John Casey, Chris Pegler, Sheila Anderson