RepRODUCE Blog

A few people have asked about the “percentages” of content from different sources that successful projects can use. For those who haven’t yet memorised the circular, this is paragraph 14, point 3.

“Use of identified materials. Projects must identify at least some of the materials they intend to use at the bidding stage. Materials should be sourced in roughly these proportions, however we hope to see higher percentages of external content used by successful projects:

• At least 50% external content These should be non-commercial materials produced externally to the institution and that do not have any connection with the institution leading the bid
• Up to 35% institutional content These should be materials sourced from other parts of the institution leading the bid and repurposed accordingly.
• Up to 15% new content These would be materials specifically generated for this course.”

Now, as I’m sure you will all have guessed, we have no way of accurately measuring the percentage proportion of content from each category. Rather, these figures are intended as a guideline to help you to see the kind of thing we are looking for. And in the assessment process, we will be using these figures as a guideline too, to remind us of the kind of thing we initially asked for.

But there will be no quantifiable metrics, not here.