The Learning and Teaching Portal Project:

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The Learning and Teaching Portal Project Finder
Services Mike Clarke
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• Overview

• Portal Aims- Services
• Progress
• LTSN RDN
• Interoperability Project

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Jointly funded by JISC and LTSN
Other partners currently include

• Institute of Learning and Teaching in HE

• Becta

• HESDA

• ALT

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Learning and Teaching Portal Service Aims

• To be a means of resource discovery for learning
  resources and materials held in a wide variety of
  repositories

• Support the development of communities of
  practice for learning and teaching

• To provide a set of services to the community to
  enhance teaching and learning

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Portal Services

• Search
• Browse
• Agency Database
• Discussion Fora
• Project Finder
• Funding Opportunities Database

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DATA SOURCES
DATA TYPES
PORTAL SERVICES (PHASE ONE)
Middleware (services can be embedded into end
sites as single functions)
ACCESS ROUTES
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Search service

• Thin search facility running February 2004

• Searching dedicated Teaching and Learning Sites

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Browse

• Browse will offer more specific targeted results

• Search on metadata

• Can be used in conjunction with search

• Available June 2004

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Agency Mapping

• Comprehensive listing of UK agencies with a
  learning and teaching remit

• Searching possible on various parameters -
  Sector, educational level, discipline, region

• Early 2004

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Community Building Fora

• Ability to effectively manage discussion events

• Synchronous and Asynchronous communication
  opportunities

• Simple registration and use

• Early 2004

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Project Finder

• one stop shop for information on national
  learning and teaching projects

• Searches over 900 existing academic projects

• Can be searched by theme, subject, institution
  and funding initiative

• February 2004

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Funding Opportunities Database

• Will facilitate access to opportunities for
  funding related to learning and
  teaching.

• Information gathered by RSS or similar in the
  long term

• User customisation

• February 2004

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Progress

• SSL contracted to develop infrastructure

• Negotiation with agencies

• Gathering information

• Defining phase 2 services

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The RDN/LTSN interoperability project

• To enable the sharing of resources across Subject
  Centres and RDN hubs

• To make those resources more accessible for all
  communities who support learners through the
  harvesting of the collective metadata by the LT
  Portal

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Questions?

• Email
• mike.clarke_at_ltsn.ac.uk
• www.ltsn.ac.uk/portal
• www.ltsn.ac.uk/genericcentre/interop