Extended introduction to "The Learning Content Management Repository Virtual Environment system 2.0 and its future" session at CETIS 2008 Conference.

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The Learning Content Management
Repository Virtual Environment system 2.0
and its future.
Phil Barker <philb@icbl.hw.ac.uk>
JISC CETIS Metadata and Repositories
http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/domain/metadata

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That's not a VLE it's a repository.
That's not a repository it's a content management system.
That's not a CMS it's a VLE.

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 VLEs were first seen as content management systems for HE
 Are they?
 Do they do a good job at content management?
 Are they anything else (as well)?
 VLEs have also been seen as repositories of teaching and
learning materials
 [same qs as above]
 Repositories for content management?
 “Better management and sharing of teaching and learning materials by individua
 How do repositories and CMS compare, e.g. version control

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 So, why do VLEs (e.g.) persist?
 Why don’t we have a CETIS CMS SIG?
 What are the conditions under which each approach
should thrive
 (niche).
 How do the different types of system involved
interact?
 Do they complement each other?

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 What might changes might we see in the next few
years?
 Open content
 Personal learning environments
 Web 2
 Service oriented approaches
 Software as a service (is there a cloud on the horizon?)

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Programme
 13:30 – 15:15 : presentations and discussion
 15:15 – 16:00 : break
 16:00 – 17:30 : discussion

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Speakers
 Me.
 Stephen Vickers, University of Edinburgh
 Richard Kirby, CAPDM
 Sarah Currier, Intrallect
 Mark Stiles, Staffordshire University
 Tony Hirst, Open University

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 Stephen Vickers. Information services at Edinburgh
University.
 Next Generation VLE project “Edinburgh university’s future needs
for VLE services, and a mechanism for evaluating alternatives”.
 Most challenging presentation!
 Richard Kirby of CAPDM
 CAPDM, based near Edinburgh
 helps education providers to produce commercially successful
distance and blended learning programmes.
 single source publishing & use of versioning repository to aid the
change management workflow in content maintenance.

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 Sarah Currier, Intrallect
 Intrallect, based near Edinburgh, Intralibrary digital repository
software, widely used for education resources
 Resource sharing and dissemination.
 Very pleased to have two presentations about
commercial systems.
 Sarah and Richard have been briefed to make sure
cover different ground
 Just because one says their system some capability and the other
doesn’t make a similar claim, doesn’t follow that the other’s
system doesn’t also have similar capability.

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 Mark Stiles. Staffordshire University
 Head of eLearnign development
 Interest in VLEs, repositories that work with VLEs, and institutional
strategy
 Tony Hirst, Open University
 OUseful.info Blog
 Interest in use of web 2 / social software in the learning
environment.

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 Approx 10-15 minutes per speaker
 (presentation and questions)
 Which will leave 10-15 minutes contingency time.
 Starting with Stephen ...