Access to Core Course Materials Project: the Dutch Study Pack Experiment report
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Prior to the launch of the Access to Core Course Materials Project, the Dutch
Department approached Education and Professional Development (EPD) and asked
for assistance to develop an interactive study pack for their students. Dutch were in
the process of compiling a bid for funding from the Language Union based in The
Hague to develop interactive learning material. In developing a pilot version of the
study pack, they hoped to strengthen their chances of obtaining funding. The call for
proposals closed on 1st October 2000 and Dutch wanted students to be able to test the
pilot pack during the Autumn Term of 2000. These two factors led to a very tight
deadline for the work which eventually had to be extended.
The Access to Core Course Materials Project was launched at UCL in July 2000 as a
joint project between Library Services and EPD. The Project seeks to examine the
potential of providing course materials in a digital format and is interested in any
additional features that electronic materials could include, such as multimedia. The
pack envisaged by the Dutch department fell into the more sophisticated end of the
spectrum of what the Access Project was hoping to achieve and ideally a less
sophisticated model would have be pursued first. However, given the overlap of
interest and the enthusiasm from the Dutch department; the experiment was
incorporated into the Project. The work was undertaken over the summer of 2000
given the Dutch department's deadline of 1st October and it was decided the less
sophisticated model could be developed afterwards.
"The Dutch experiment", as it was referred to, was intended to be exploratory work to
demonstrate full potential of providing course materials in a digital format. The
second, less sophisticated experiment would digitise a selection of readings from the
teaching collection and make this available to students for a trial period. This work,
known as Teaching Collection Experiment will involve a second department. Staff
and students in the selected departments will test both experimental systems and
evaluation work will be undertaken. The pilot service launched as part of the Access
Project will then be designed using the real-life experiences of these two experimental
systems, in conjunction with the results from the needs analysis of departments across UCL. The service offered to departments during 2001 is likely to incorporate
elements from both the Dutch Experiment and the Teaching Collection Experiment.