Q4R Best Practices Wiki

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Introduction

Welcome to the Q4R Best Practices Wiki. Q4R - Quality for Reuse - is an attempt to document and encourage the use of quality assurance strategies and best practices for Learning Object Repositories (LORs). Find out more about the project at the Q4R website.

The Q4R team has partnered with LORs from across Canada and around the world. Our GLOBE Partners have shared with us their quality assurance best practices, which you can find, question and comment under the “GLOBE partners” option in the left menu.

This wiki is an opportunity for our partners and the broader community to collaborate with us in the refinement of these Best Practice guidelines. Please feel free to comment and make suggestions by going to the discussion section of the pages. Discussions will be monitored and suggestions incorporated into the best practices on a regular basis.

Best practices

1. Reusability
   • What is a LOR
2. Organizational Strategies
   • Policies
   • Stakeholders
   • Metadata
   • Search strategies
3. Before including the LO in a repository (Authoring Strategies)
   • Quality criteria
   • Instructional design
   • Peer review
   • End user evaluation
4. While including the LO into the repository
   • Membership requirements
   • Inclusion protocol
   • Intellectual/Digital rights management
   • Automatic metadata validation
   • Metadata guides and assistance
5. After including the LO into the repository (evaluation systems)
   • Peer review systems
   • Expert review systems
   • Reusability data
   • User feedback
6. Emerging issues