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www.open.ac.uk/education-and-languages/loro/
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| Summary:
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| ""The LORO (Language Open Resource Online) project aims to provide an integrated digital repository based on the Language Box (languagebox.eprints.org1 ), a lightweight languages repository developed by the JISC-funded Faroes team at the University of Southampton. The University of Southampton will be carrying out the technical development needed to customise the existing Language Box for DoL, aiming to have a pilot in place by October 2009 to deliver to our beginners language tutors tutorial resources for Elluminate, the audiographic conferencing tool that all OU courses will be using in future.
An important part of the project is interoperability between LORO and the Language Box so that there is the option of automatically sharing resources uploaded to LORO with the wider community of language professionals who might use the Language Box. As a significant quantity of high quality resources in a range of levels and languages, including lesser-taught languages such as Welsh or Chinese, is made available from LORO through to the Language Box, the project will aim to address one of the key problems that repositories encounter, that of achieving the critical mass of deposits that would make them attractive to potential users.
This project, which runs for 15 months, will provide an interesting case study for the wider JISC community on whether or not repositories can be used to strengthen a community of practice - as part of a distance education institution, OU Associate Lecturers are geographically dispersed and can feel isolated; it will also explore the impact on users of changes that result from the use of a repository in an institutional setting."" |
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| Year Started:
2009 |
| Year Completed:
Ongoing |
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| Record created 9/21/2009 1:25:04 PM by iliya |
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