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An Inter-University Platform for Sharing and Collaborating in English Studies: Creating SEED (Swedens English Educational Database for tertiary education)
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Author list: Deutschmann, Mats
Edition name or number: 1
Publisher: Swedish Science Press
Place: Uppsala
Publication year: 2009
Book title (if part of a book): Language and Learning : Papers from the ASLA Symposium in Stockholm, 7-8 November, 2008
Start page: 127
End page: 140
Number of pages: 14
ISBN: 978-91-87884-22-1
Abstract
Abstract: SEED is a two-year nationally-funded Swedish project (2006-2008) intended to establish a bottom-up, self-sustaining inter-university Internet-based network among active teachers and students of English in Swedish universities. This report describes its concepts, organization, failures and successes, and the general lessons that can be learned from the experience of creating and implementing such a network. SEED provides university students and teachers of English with two components: (i) a collaborative space for joint projects and exchange of ideas and (ii) a database repository of learning objects in the field of English studies. The interactive collaborative section is currently hosted by the Stockholm University version of the Sakai VLE (“Mondo”), and via guest logins is available to researchers, teachers and students at all levels. The repository in database form (currently less developed) uses the MIT/HP system called DSpace, which permits full integration with international library practices for documentation and retrieval. Once fully launched, SEED may serve as a model for similar networks in other fields of language studies, or other university areas.
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