SHARE Workshop
“I fought the learning repository and the learning repository won!” – a workshop on developments in learning repositories
The workshop took place on the 16th March 2011 at the Nottingham Trent University Conference Centre
Recordings from the workshop are available below. These are a presented in windows media video format and contain a mix of audio and video of the presenters and the slides that they presented. See below for biographies of the presenters below.
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1. Nottingham Trent University SHARE project members 
2. Nicola Siminson and Kate Borthwick
3. Yvonne Monterroso and Stephanie Taylor
4. NTU academic debate and workshop round up
Speakers presentations and biographies are available on the presentations page:
Programme for the workshop
Morning – Learning Repositories: the Present
9:30: Registration and Refreshments
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome Nigel Hastings PVC Academic
10:10 – 10:15 Anna Armstrong SHARE Project Officer
10:15 – 11:15 Share Project Showcase
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:45 Open access learning repositories:
- Nicola Siminson from Jorum 11:30 – 12:05 (25 mins presenation 10 mins questions)
- Kate Borthwick Humbox – 12:05 – 12:40 (25 mins presentation 10 mins questions)
12:45 – 1:45 Lunch
Afternoon – Repositories: the Future
1:45 – 2:05 Learning Repository Pub Quiz
2:05 – 3:00 Future repository developments
- 2:05 – 2:35 Presentation for Yvonne Monterroso, Technical Product Manager, Desire 2 Learn Repository Developments (20 mins presentation 10mins questions)
- 2:35 – 3:05 Future developments in learning repositories Stephanie Taylor, Research Officer, UKOLN (20 mins presentation 10 mins questions)
3:05 – 3:20 Break
3:20 – 4:00 Lets have a heated debate!
“The sharing of learning resources will increase the competition between Universities and will lead to the demise of those Universities that cannot produce the same quality of resources as their competitors”
- The case for: Jon Tepper Learning and Teaching Coordinator, Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University (10 mins)
- The case against: Phil Wane Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University (10 mins)
- Questions 10 mins
- Voting and round up 10 mins
Are you in the early stages of developing a learning repository within your organisation and want to learn from others who have been there? Do you have experiences of learning repositories which could help novices starting out on the path towards sharing learning resources?
This free one day workshop will have presentations from a range of speakers that are involved in learning repository development, and activities which will provide an opportunity to share experiences of managing and using learning repositories within a higher education context. The workshop also provides the opportunity to hear the experiences of the JISC funded SHARE Project which has implemented a learning repository within its Virtual Learning Environment Desire2Learn at Nottingham Trent University, and has encouraged a culture of sharing across the University.
Suggested Audience: those using or are interested in using learning repositories e.g. learning and teaching staff; managers of learning resource repositories; content and e-learning developers; individuals supporting technology enhanced learning; academic librarians
Structure: combination of presentations and opportunities to discuss the themes presented
Outputs: video; slides; web site and activity capture
For further details: contact Vicki McGarvey vicki.mcgarvey@ntu.ac.uk