Sharing content
How will Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS) support users and partners to make their content available?
Nationally
- Participate in a UK-wide project to establish an open, standards-based Authentication System for education and research. This will use Shibboleth, a core Glow service.
- Supply content providers with information on attributes of Glow users based on a release policy.
- Establish a national content advisory group (NCAG) representing key stakeholders. This group will be set up by March 2007. The remit will be to:
- give advice to LTS and SEED on nationally provided content
- devise and share advice on quality control and mechanisms for making local content visible on Glow.
Local authorities and others
LTS will work with local authorities and other partners to make selected content visible on Glow.
From September 2006 to March 2007, we will work with Perth and Kinross, Falkirk, Fife and Highland Councils to run a pilot of the best mechanism to allow local authorities to make selected material visible on Glow, in order to share it across all Scottish local authorities.
In general LTS will presume that local authority content is best refreshed and quality-controlled at the local level. This means that:
- each local authority will need to establish quality mechanisms for promoting local content to a national level within the overall guidance of the NCAG
- each local authority will need to determine its quality mechanisms for sharing content between schools
- content will need to be tagged locally according to a simple tagging convention to be agreed.
LTS will only have responsibility for the quality control of content published on the LTS Online Service.
We will work with local authorities and other public bodies to encourage the sharing of resources across Glow and to create an environment where teachers and other educational professionals can freely share resources.