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Enhancing software re-use across institutional
and subject boundaries
V I A
Reusable Educational Software Library
Customisation
SoURCE Customisation Cycle

• Design Features
• Metadata IMS 1.1 compliant
• Accommodates case-studies, licensing agreements,
  papers, manuals, software, internet sites, data
  sets.
• Add an annotation Readers review allows an
  experiential commentary to develop organically
  through use.

Do you have any case studies you want to
disseminate?
Prove
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Adapt
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Customise
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Implement
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Software
Contexts

• Elicitation Engine
• fOCUS
• Colloquia
• Visual Learning Manager

• Distance /face-to-face
• PGCE, architecture, nursing, marine science...

Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned

• It is possible and relatively cost effective to
  produce generic software tools that can be used
  across subject and institutional boundaries, in
  at least two particular niches
• learner manipulation of content objects as
  datasets, e.g. classification activities
• teacher sequencing of learning activities
• The active intervention of educational developers
  and related experts must replace
  software-developer driven development.
• A key benefit of academics customising software
  for their own use is that it encourages them to
  reflect on their practice.

• There seems to be a preference among users for
  high level systems within which low-granularity
  learning objects can be flexibly deployed.
• Software is also interesting as an intermediary
  object for examining and encouraging change in
  educational practice a Trojan Mouse.
• There are endemic conflicts between the
  interests of users and contributors ro a national
  resource on educational software use. These will
  only be overcome with a living community of
  discourse in which technology is well integrated
  with existing human-centred interactions, such as
  research, publication and continuing professional
  development.

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Exit Strategy
RESULTs Resource Exchange and Support for Users
of Learning Technologies www.results.ac.uk
RESL Re-usable Educational Software Library
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