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About the conference | Who should attend? | Conference goals
Digital Repositories for Learning: moving from why to how, will focus on addressing and overcoming challenges faced in creating and sustaining educational repositories.
Sponsored by the FIPSE-funded OnCoRe Blueprint Project*, this conference will be a full-day session (August 11, 2009), offered in conjunction with the Open Ed 2009 Conference, August 12-14, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Many states, institutions, and organizations are currently envisioning, designing and developing repository projects. Establishing a successful repository requires funding, adopting technical standards and policies, creating partnerships, procedures, training, and marketing plans, and finding appropriate content. User adoption of a repository may require changes in preparing, delivering, and/or archiving educational experiences.
Who Should Attend?
This one-day conference is bringing together a range of thought leaders, administrators, and implementers -- to help shape the evolution of content sharing and repository development. This includes:
- Repository managers and staff
- IT managers
- eLearning managers
- Statewide education leaders and administrators
- Institutional administrators
- Educators
- Librarians
- Anyone interested in learning more about developing, implementing, or sustaining a repository.
- To expand the knowledge of and use of the OnCoRe Blueprint, a FIPSE grant project, which provides a framework for the development, implementation, and sustainability of digital educational repositories.
- To expand knowledge and use of Open Educational Resources
- To establish a community of practice whose members will continue to share knowledge and interact with one another after the conference concludes.
*The Online Content Repository (OnCoRe) Blueprint Project is an initiative to create a sustainable national model for the creation of statewide digital repositories. Funded by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the OnCoRe Blueprint Project provides state entities with a “how to” manual, resources, and research for developing a standards-based educational repository.