A multi functional regional digital repository for teaching higher education in further education colleges

Abstract

There is a growing interest in the use of a learning object economy as a means to deliver high quality learning to students particularly in the post-16 educational sector. This is fuelled by, amongst other things, pressures to increase student numbers brought about by initiatives such as widening participation and lifelong learning, and student’s expectations of high quality electronic learning. The reuse of learning objects is a means of making wider use of scarce and expensive resources. Crucial to this is finding an effective means for the storing, cataloguing and retrieval of materials.