The newest initiative to emerge from the Carrick Institute was discussed this morning in a very interactive session with ASCILITE members. The Resource Information Network Project will use a range of technologies, including Web 2.0, to bring people together who share common interests in teaching and learning – an overarching community that will go beyond the current discipline or institution-based initiatives already happening in Australia and internationally.
It makes sense really – how many times have you heard people say at this conference, ‘Oh, our work is so closely related. We’ll have to keep in touch!’ But the logistics of developing and sustaining such a network stumped quite a few members at the morning session. Is it to be a peer-reviewed digital repository, or a dynamic community for collaboratively developing resources? And why do we need this anyway, when we already have a whole host of resource repositories which are being underutilised?
We talked to Elizabeth Greener and Rob Phillips to work out what this project means for us. They clarify many points in this complex yet visionary project, and give us a sneak preview of what we can expect over the coming months.
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