Col.laboratori (CIRAX) and LORO, collaborative networks for educational repositories and teaching communities

Santos-Hermosa, Gema, Comas-Quinn, Anna and Sancho-Vinuesa, Teresa Col.laboratori (CIRAX) and LORO, collaborative networks for educational repositories and teaching communities., 2012 . In OER13. Creating an OER Virtuous Circle, Nottingham, England, 26-27/03/2012. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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This study focuses on the connection between LORO (Language Open Resources Online), from Department of Language at the Open University, and the prototype CIRAX (Collaborative Interuniversity Learning Resources on the Net), from the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC). LORO is a consolidated and successful languages teaching and learning repository that was developed with UKOER JISC funding and institutional support. In 2011 it was highly commended in OPAL awards for quality in innovation through Open Educational Practice. LORO was identified as an appropriate and effective experience to learn from and apply to the new CIRAX, which aims to be a radical step forward in creating a teaching community and a space for interuniversity collaboration The evaluation and effectiveness of LORO in changing educators’ practice and the valuable evidences showing that a repository is more accepted and used if those who are affected, educators, participate in the decision making and its implementation, clearly marks the way to be followed by CIRAX. These two projects share a common purpose in helping teachers to become a learning community that systematically uses learning materials stored in a shared repository, and both are also active in the creation, maintenance, and sharing of resources and methodologies for learning. In short, both projects strive to continuously improve the quality of teaching and the progress from the experience and reflective practice. LORO has become effectively embedded in institutional practice at the UK OU and in engaging with other disciplinary users nationally to activate a discipline-based community of educators. Whether this approach can be applied across different discipline areas is a question for its future.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Open Education; Open Educational Resources; OER; educational repositories; teaching communities; collaborative networks; educational innovation; LORO; CIRAX
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BJ. Communication
C. Users, literacy and reading. > CZ. None of these, but in this section.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
Depositing user: Gema Santos-Hermosa
Date deposited: 02 Apr 2020 05:21
Last modified: 02 Apr 2020 05:21
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/39739

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