Projects

The ReFORM project was one of 20 projects funded under JISC's ReProduce Programme to run and quality assure technology enhanced courses using reused and repurposed learning materials sourced externally to their institution.

The ReFORM project ran for 12 months from March 2008 and involved the redevelopment of an existing Professional Development module CPD304: Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) in Higher Education - Support Issues. The module's teaching and learning content (drawn from Jorum and other credible sector sources) related to themes which such as writing, reading and memory, and (providing materials to bridge a current gap) the generation of new multimedia objects which focus on learners’ narratives relating to such themes.

The project objectives were:

• To develop an improved understanding of the potential for reuse of learning objects at practitioner level
• To learn from the process what constitutes effective practice in creation, design and use of learning objects: distillation and dissemination from this experience internally and externally
• To develop an improved understanding of the workflows underpinning the design, development and reuse of learning objects
• To successfully deliver CPD 304
• To raise the profile of reusable learning objects among key stakeholder groups within the University and its partners

This project aims to create and populate an institutional repository to improve the storage, preservation, retrieval and use of Edge Hill University’s research outputs. It will start with an analysis of user needs to help identify and procure the repository solution which is the best fit for Edge Hill. The project will focus on the cultural embedding of the repository, underpinned by workflows and policies which will facilitate use of the repository in line with Edge Hill’s existing practices and systems wherever possible. Find out more by visiting the EROS Project.

As part of the University's Knowledge Transfer, the project was set up to build capacity within and across public, private and voluntary sectors by increase economic and social development opportunities.

Focused on community and outreach work we facilitate agencies working together, sharing information for the benefit of small and medium sized businesses as well as voluntary community organisations. Over the last four years, we have developed a cost effective working model for knowledge/information management for small and medium sized organisations. We have established strong ties with both voluntary and business sectors in the Chinese Community of Liverpool; and organisations in Manchester, Wirral, Preston and Cumbria.

We offer consultancy on developing and implementing:

• Information management system;
• Information strategy;
• E-learning programme;
• Action Research.

This covers a wide range of activities within information technologies, access to learning and equalities and diversities themes, the followings are a selection of completed projects:

• Online content management system for voluntary and community groups;
• Crime Solution research in Liverpool Chinese Community and BME communities in Cumbria (funded by UCLAN);
• E-learning workshop and seminar (working in conjunction with SOLSTICE);
• Dyslexic awareness training for community workers

Through our links with voluntary and community groups, we currently work with:

• North West Development Agency;
• Business Link North West;
• Rural Diversity;
• Liverpool Chinese Business Association;
• Liverpool City Council;
• Liverpool Vision;
• Muslim Enterprise Development Services.

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This JISC funded national study ( http://www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/llida/index.html )aimed to inform JISC and the wider UK FE and HE communities by providing a better understanding of learning literacies, how they are evolving, how requirements are changing, and how they may be supported in different contexts.

Staff from Learning Services were asked by to write up a short case study which reflected the success the team have had in embedding information literacy into the curriculum.

• Download the case study report
• Find out more about the project

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