The workshop for Research-led Teaching and Resource Sharing is jointly organised by the European Network for co-ordination of policies and programmes on e-Infrastructures (e-InfraNet) and the National Digital Learning Resouces (NDLR) service.

The workshop aims to bring together representatives from the European and wider teaching and research repository and data infrastructure communities for the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility and potential benefits of linking Open research and teaching repositories within Europe. 

The information and data infrastructure in Europe and across the globe has developed to the point where the synergies between teaching and research can be exploited to deliver tangible benefits to both academic staff and students.

This workshop will demonstrate to delegates that the infrastructure to support Trans-European integration of national learning resources and to leverage the research repository infrastructure to support research-led teaching accross the community is already substantially in place. It only requires a relatively small additional coordinated effort to make the entire infrastructure interoperable. 

The target audience for this event is representative of the research and higher education communities paying particular attention to the following groups:

• Academics who are engaged or have an active interest in, the Open agenda and the potential benefits for research, teaching and learning and scholarship
• Research managers, Policy advisors, Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Library Directors in higher education and research institutions 
• Individuals involved in national research and teaching repositories
• Representatives from countries in the developmental stage of their teaching and research repository infrastructure

The workshop will be organised to facilitate intensive feedback from attendees in the form of structured break-out sessions. By the end of this event it is hoped to identify a consortium of participants who are willing to collaborate on forging linkages with a view to progressing recomendations.

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Workshop Programme 

Monday 28th of May 2012

12:30  Registration

13:00  Lunch

14:00  Day 1 Kick Off

Chair: Mr. Norman Wiseman, Head of Services and Outreach, Joint Information System's Committee (JISC) 

Welcome Address:

Dr. Malcolm Read, Former Executive Secretary, JISC

Mr. Wim Jansen, Directorate General, Information Society and Media, European Commission

14:30  Professor John Willinsky, School of Education, Stanford University, United States

15:00  Professor Jane Grimson, Professor of Health Informatics, Vice Provost (Former), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

15:30 Coffee Break 

15:40  Break Out Session 1- 'Exploring the interconnections and commonalities between the research and teaching and learning environments

16:10   Report back from Break Out Session 1

16:30   Presentation: Dr. Lieve van den Brande, Senior Policy Officer responsible for 'ICT and education', Directorate General, Education and Culture, European Commission

17:00   Break Out Session 2- 'Strengthening the policy base'

17:30   Report back from Break Out Session 2 

17:50   Wrap Up

Tuesday 29th of May 2012

Chair: Professor Eamonn McQuade, Chair of the NDLR Oversight Comittee 

09:00   Summary of Day #1

09:15  Presentation: Dr. Julia Minguillon Alfonso, Academic Director of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-learning

09:45 Break Out Session 3 'The potential of integrating Open Educational Resources, Open Research  Data and Open Research Publications 

10:15   Report back from Break Out Session 3

10:35   Presentation: Professor Alan Jenkins, Professor Emeritus Oxford Brookes University, UK

11:05   Coffee Break 

11:20   Break Out Session 4 'Examining the barriers to a fully integrated teaching, learning and research landscape' 

11:50   Report back from Break Out Session 4 

12:10  Synthesis of discussions: Key Outputs and Next Steps-Mr. Pat O'Connor, coordinator of the e-InfraNet project, Higher Education Authority

12:40   Closing Address: Mr. Tom Boland, Chief Executive, Higher Education Authority (HEA), Ireland

13:00   Lunch