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| University of Cambridge > Universities' Collaboration in eLearning |
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Distributed developmentUCeL is a true national collective and is pioneering methods of distributed development. The content, provided by the subject experts at each of the partner institutions is "mediated" at the Cambridge hub, based at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET). Here, instructional designers, developers, illustrators and photographers turn imagination into reality creating collections of digital images (both stills and video), narrations and texts, using real world data, presented in appropriate format (chart, spreadsheet, simulation), to support the learning objective. The resulting "ingredients" are then electronically despatched to a selected developer or may be developed "in-house" as appropriate. Distributed production as well as creation engenders a wide sense of ownership that increases uptake, adding further value to these resources. Distributed production also means that if one partner has a delivery bottleneck, others can step in to smooth out the production schedule. Support and staff development are built-in to the process with residential programmes and mini-sabbatticals just two highlights of a continuous commitment to personal as well as RLO development. You can see the whole process as a Flash animation which provides a walk-through and description of each of the stages. You can also download all the supporting documents from the Resources area of the UCeL webiste This collective approach has been received with great enthusiasm and has been adopted by other organisations such as the JISC as part of their distributed eLearning strand where we provided a framework of support for collaborative projects and also by Stor Curam at Strathclyde. "It's struck a deep chord," says Dawn Leeder, UCeL's Director. "It's timely, joined-up and it works. People really connect with it." The quality of UCeL RLOs is assured by a number of methods... <previous | next >
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