e-Books have been viewed cautiously by many libraries. Access and licensing problems have made them seem inflexible and costly. Users have been slow to take them on board because of their perceived limitations. The e-learning community appears to have largely ignored e-books as learning materials, focusing instead on ‘learning objects'. Could e-books become learning objects, perhaps by breaking down content into chunks suitable for use in e-learning packages? Or are the two things wholly different? These issues were explored by speakers at this meeting.
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Click below for the presenters' slides.
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1.30pm |
Registration and Coffee |
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2:00 - 2:05pm |
Welcome |
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Presentations (inc. time for questions) |
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2:05 - 2:35pm |
Julie Carpenter, Education for Change In 2003 the JISC E-Books Working Group commissioned Education for Change Ltd and the University of Stirling to undertake a study to define the business and market context for electronic textbooks for UK further and higher education, to shape the work and role of the Working Group and a vision for the future (up to 10 years ahead) of electronic textbooks. Julie will tell us of the report's findings and what has happened since. Click here for PowerPoint Slides. |
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2:35 - 3:05pm |
Prof. Steve Molyneux, Director, Learning Lab / ADL Partnership Lab (UK) The Learning Lab provides a centre of excellence to support all those involved in the design, development and use of learning technologies. Steve will talk about the Lab's collaboration with the US Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative and the role of what he calls ‘sharable content objects' in the future of e-learning. Click here for a pdf of the PowerPoint Slides. |
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3:05 - 3:35pm |
Charles Duncan, CEO, Intrallect Ltd and Moira Massey, JORUM Project Manager JORUM is the JISC-funded community repository for learning and teaching materials, that will shortly be provided as a free online service by the national data centres, EDINA and MIMAS. The aim of JORUM is to promote the sharing, re-use and re-purposing of resources amongst Further and Higher Education Institutions in the UK. Intrallect Ltd provide the repository software system, intraLibrary, that underpins the JORUM service. Moira will talk about the JORUM project that is establishing the JORUM service, while Charles will demonstrate the intraLibrary system and explore the kinds of resources that can be made available to the community. Click here for PowerPoint Slides. |
| 3:35 - 4:05pm | Steve Walmsley, Kainao Ltd Sentient Learning are marketing the Learning Object Repository developed at Huddersfield University as part of the HLSI (Higher Level Skills for Industry) project. The Repository is being re-branded as LearnBuild and the companion authoring software as LearnBase. Steve Walmsley, previously the project director at HSLI, is now a director of Kainao Ltd, the company which seeks to further develop the product and sell it on a commercial basis Steve will talk about the products, and the company's future plans for them. Click here for PowerPoint Slides. |
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4:05 - 4:30pm |
Questions, Discussion and Tea |
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4:45pm |
Close |
Enquiries about the seminar may be sent to Sue Cumberpatch, University of York. Email sc17@york.ac.uk, tel 01904 433891