"Sharing the LOAD" is an 18-month JISC-funded project exploring the reusability of learning designs. The core project team are members of the Centre for Excellence in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL).
Commencing in May 2006, the project aims to capture a series of "real-world" learning designs through a review of existing mature reusable content to construct a learning design taxonomy and also through practitioner-focused workshops. These designs will then be piloted in three subject areas to create learning object exemplars.
The exemplars will be evaluated for pedagogical effectiveness across a range of subjects by the RLO-CETL community of students and tutors using the RLO-CETL Evaluation Toolkit. Findings will be disseminated as widely as possible, through the UCeL and RLO-CETL communities, the wider Design for Learning programme, HE Academy and Subject Centre communities and events, Becta and JISC Regional Support Centres, national conferences and international workshops and exchange visits.
Project Overview