Buzz - Webct

• Encouraging More Open Educational Resources With Southampton's EdShare

  Debra Morris describes the EdSpace Institutional Exemplar Project and the early development of EdShare for sharing learning and teaching materials within and beyond the institution.

• Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective

  Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

• Book Review: Libraries Without Walls 5

  David Parkes reviews the fifth compilation of the biennial Library Without Walls Conference. He finds how far we have come and how far we have to go in delivering services to distributed learners.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• Mapping the JISC IE Service Landscape

  Andy Powell provides a graphical representation of how some well-known services, projects and software applications fit within the JISC Information Environment technical architecture.

• Six MLEs: More Similar Than Different

  Paul Browning offers a technical review of the systems developed by the JISC 'Building MLEs in HE' (7/99) Programme

• Portals, Portals Everywhere

  Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt report on two conferences over the summer which explored the progress being made in deploying institutional portals of various forms.

• Managed Learning?

  Nicole Harris on current developments towards Managed Learning Environments in the ANGEL project.

• Information Skills and the DNER: The INHALE Project

  Margaret Weaver describes the work of the Information for Nursing and Health in a Learning Environment (INHALE) Project team.

• Adaptive Developments for Learning in the Hybrid Library

  Wilma Alexander on the SELLIC Project and its aim to support the use of electronic resources in teaching science and engineering.

• The DISinHE Centre: Web CT Accessibility

  Murray Rowan examines WebCT from the point of view of accessibility.

• Instructional Management Systems

  John MacColl explores the IMS concept in the context of the SELLIC project.