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What is the X4L Programme?
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What is the X4L Programme?
The Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L) is exploring the re-purposing of existing and forthcoming JISC funded content suitable for use in learning.
The programme will also encompass content created by other bodies and agencies active in this area where intellectual property rights allow for educational use in FE and HE, or can be negotiated. Part of this activity is to explore the process of integration or "plugging-in" of usable objects into online learning such as Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and Managed Learning Environments (MLEs).
This area of development has the potential to:
- increase the range and number of materials accessible for use in learning and teaching;
- make available exemplars and case studies of re-purposing electronic materials for learning and teaching;
- explore the potential for re-purposing existing electronic materials to meet new learning objectives;
- establish mechanisms for tagging content as learning objects, and the mechanisms for interaction between local provision and national repositories, e.g. the National Learning Network (NLN) repository;
- build upon the JISC MLE programmes to demonstrate the potential for use and re-use of standards or specifications for learning objects within VLEs and MLEs;
- build on relationships with content providers (including commercial suppliers) to provide learning focussed exemplars and sample materials which demonstrate applicability of content for learning.