Intrallect e-learning projects

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(2003), "Intrallect e-learning projects", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 37 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/prog.2003.28037cab.011

Intrallect e-learning projects

Intrallect e-learning projects

Intrallect, an Edinburgh-based company, is working with Learning and Teaching Scotland on developing a digital repository of learning objects for secondary schools as part of the Scottish Schools Digital Network Initiative. The project, which will form a blue print for the whole of Scotland, will enable teachers to source, repurpose and reuse digital learning objects easily. Learning and Teaching Scotland is using Intrallect's core software product Intralibrary as the engine to consolidate and categorise the learning objects.

Intrallect has also been appointed to provide technical direction and support to a major JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) funded project to create e-learning facilities for nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, fitness and social care professions. The aim of the "Accessing Learning for a Healthier Nation" scheme is to help these professionals, through improved training, to meet government targets to drastically reduce deaths resulting from cancer, chronic heart disease, strokes and mental illness in the UK. Intrallect will be working with the higher and further education sectors to identify learning resources and then develop an electronic repository of learning objects which can be used by tutors in the health and care sectors.

A third contract is with EuroControl in Luxembourg, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. Intrallect has been commissioned to develop four half-hour training modules on "An introduction to European air traffic control" using Intralibrary as the repository for learning objects created by EuroControl.

"These contracts and many more in the pipeline have got 2003 off to a great start for Intrallect", said Dr Charles Duncan, CEO, Intrallect. "We decided from the beginning to specialise in systems for managing the reuse of learning objects as there are too many players in the e-learning sector who try to be all things to all men. We are now being acknowledged as the experts in this field and organisations are seeking us out for the unique expertise and technical knowledge which we can bring to e-learning projects."

For further information please contact: The Glass Cube, Houston Road, Livingston, Edinburgh EH54 5BZ, UK. Tel: +44 870 234 3933; Fax: +44 1506 498 073; E-mail: enquiries@intrallect.com; URL: www.intrallect.com