1. Franklin Consulting The Learning and Teaching Portal Project Tom Franklin Franklin Consulting Tom@franklin-consulting.co.uk

2. Franklin Consulting Introduction Background Current and future services Progress Embedding Working together

3. Franklin Consulting Background Funded by JISC and LTSN Other partners –ILTHE –Becta –HESDA –ALT

4. Franklin Consulting Aims To be a means of resource discovery for learning resources and materials held in a wide variety of repositories Support the development of communities of practice for learning and teaching To provide a set of services to the community to enhance teaching and learning

5. Franklin Consulting Target audience Educational technologists Staff developers Curriculum developers L & T researchers

6. Franklin Consulting Services (Current) Funding Opportunities Database Agency Mapping Search Browse Discussion Fora

7. Franklin Consulting Services (Future) Toolkits –Race equality audit –Evaluation toolkit –employability Project finder Learning and teaching research resource locator Futures show case

8. Franklin Consulting Portal Diagram Jorum, NLN etc. RDN Hubs, JISC data sets etc. Web-sites, LTSN, FERL etc. Funding councils, agencies, organisations, associations, etc. FDTL, TLTP, Innovations etc. DATA TYPES Learning materials (used during teaching) Learning and Teaching documents (to support L&T practice) Community foraFunding opportunities Agency mappingBrowse and search “Middleware” ( services can be embedded into end sites as single functions ) LTSN SC web-sites Partner agencies websites Learning and teaching portal website Individual F/HEIs portals Collaborating agencies websites PORTAL SERVICES (PHASE ONE) DATA SOURCES ACCESS ROUTES

9. Franklin Consulting Funding Opportunities Database Will facilitate access to opportunities for funding related to learning and teaching. Automated gathering data as soon as possible Customisable views Push (personal emails) Jan 2004

10. Franklin Consulting Agency mapping Comprehensive list of UK L & T agencies and what they do Accessible through multiple parameters Jan 2004

11. Franklin Consulting Search Simple full text search Wide variety of learning and teaching sites Jan 2004

12. Franklin Consulting Browse Use in conjunction with search Based on metadata –UKCMF –Vocabularies defined for pedagogy and “themes” June 2004 Needs metadata

13. Franklin Consulting Discussion Fora Ability to have managed discussions Synchronous and asynchronous More facilities than current discussion (move away from threaded discussions) Jan 2004

14. Franklin Consulting Embedding Link to portal pages –Jan 2004 Customise through probably using include and CSS? –Jan 2004 Full custom (possibly using XML and SOAP?) –June 2004

15. Franklin Consulting Working together Content –Search –Browse –Funding opportunities Including services in portals / web sites