About Exchange for Learning

It is hard to believe that the programme started in June 2002 – over one year ago.  But, when we look at what has been achieved by the projects, it seems as if it has been going for a lot longer.

Over 100 proposals were received for X4L.  We were able to fund 25 of these.  22 repurposing projects and 3 tools projects.  These involve teachers, learning resources staff, learning technologists, researchers, JISC services and commercial developers working together.

I would like to go back and remind you of the aims of X4L. These are to:

• use and develop the best available tools to explore whether repurposing content can become a popular, sustainable way of producing e-learning materials for the future
• increase the numbers of people in institutions with the necessary skills to repurpose learning objects
• expose and begin to tackle the challenges associated with repurposing learning
  objects
• begin to populate a national repository with repurposable learning materials,
  case studies and exemplars.

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