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Digital Content for Learning

The purpose of the project is to increase the availability, accessibility and re-usability of CGIAR digital content for learning available through the Online Learning Resources (OLR) repository.

Opportunity

The project enhances the enabling infrastructure, which supports the availability, accessibility and use of CGIAR digital content for learning through the OLR repository / CGXchange, by providing integrated solutions that address technical, instructional and organizational components, and the strengthening of a community of practice of CGIAR training officers that can mobilize organizational cohesion, the sustainability of this infrastructure and associated learning design models.

Project objectives

Promote the OLR repository as the enabling infrastructure to disseminate learning objects
Stimulate the educational content enrichment of re-usable learning objects through learning object metadata (LOM)
Increase the creation, publication, discovery, acquisition, access, and use of quality learning objects
Strengthen the community of CGIAR training officers

Project outcomes

Improved quality learning objects available in the OLR repository
Increased number of learning objects uploaded to the OLR repository
Increased number of learning objects downloaded from the OLR repository
Improved authoring process of learning content in CGIAR Centers
Increased usage of the OLR tools by CGIAR scientists and partners
Strengthened CGIAR presence in the Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange (GLOBE) alliance
More frequent collaboration of training officers

Project outputs

Quality assurance and management policy
Quality assurance and management toolkit (Web and CD-ROM)
Training officers trained in LOM (Web-based and face-to-face)
Interested CGIAR scientists and partners trained in LOM (Web-based)
Training officers trained in quality assurance & management (Web-based and face-to-face)
Refined CGIAR LOM Core application profile
Enhanced OLR repository
Enhanced OLR Moodle course management system
Published results of research studies