RepRODUCE Blog

Does content specially commissioned by the lead institution count as “external content”? No. We don’t need to fund projects to tell us that institutions can commission and use content designed for them. External content is content that has not been specifically designed for you to use.

Our institution or area doesn’t have “departments”, are we ineligible? No. As long as you can identify your module (or comparable “chunk” of learning) to a subject area that you teach, that is fine.

What kind of resources do you want to see projects using? Anything from single images right up to an entire activity. Be creative!

Our validation cycle is longer than you allow for - can we still bid? Yes… note in the circular that there is a substantial gap between when the funding ends and when the final report is due. We have done this precisely because we know that things take time. But bear in mind you would still be funded for the same time, and you should really consider telling us about this in your outline workplan in the bid document.

Our first questions regarding this call all started with the fragment above. And ended there, as we had to stop and correct a major misconception.

This call is not about you repurposing your own content. This is about bringing content in from outside the institution, and using it to revamp one of your modules (and about documenting the process, of course).

Yes, we know that is difficult, and that many institutions may find major internal blocks on this kind of reuse. But a large part of government thinking about content has been based around the idea of it being created once and reused freely. We’d like to identify and remove barriers (all kinds of barriers) so this can happen.