But making our hard work open and easy to access highlights a paradox at the heart of being a learning and teaching professional. Most of us want to share our successful strategies and materials freely, but we need to keep some control to progress in our careers. We need a way of evidencing reach and impact, even if our instinct is to throw open everything and say \u2013 go on – help yourselves if it will help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was from these opposing desires that the National Teaching Repository (\u2018NTR\u2019) was born. Funded by an AdvanceHE Good Practice Grant in 2020 the NTR started in the UK as an open access database where you can upload and share proven teaching resources and pedagogical research, AND you can measure the impact of your practice as evidence for AdvanceHE Fellowships, academic promotion or just your own interest.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/a>Founded by Professor Dawne Irving-Bell<\/a> (for the current Board, please see the end of this blog) the NTR will generate a citation for others to acknowledge your work, you can link to an ORCID ID and get a unique DOI for each work uploaded. You can set your own Creative Commons (CC) licence level so you\u2019re in charge of what your work should be used for and you can have an NTR profile which you can link to institutional and personal websites, blogs, or whatever. It\u2019s got built-in sharing via social media and even limited Altmetric tracking so you can see where your work is ending up all over the world \u2013 because although it started in the UK, the NTR quickly went global. It is free to use for anyone with access to the internet and is accessed all around the world, including some of the countries rated by the UN as \u2018least developed\u2019. It\u2019s reach and impact won it the Open Education Global\u2019s (OEGlobal) International Award for Excellence in Open Collaboration in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve recently contributed my first piece of work<\/a> to the NTR and I can vouch for the ease of the process of uploading and linking and also how strangely addictive it is to see the views, downloads and social media mentions gradually stack up\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can explore the NTR and make your own contribution here<\/a> \u2013 somewhere else to contribute the amazing talks, resources and discussions generated by OER24<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n The National Teaching Repository Board members are Dr Scott Turner,\u00a0Canterbury Christ Church University<\/em>; Dr Nathalie Tasler,\u00a0University of Glasgow<\/em>; Dr Kate Cuthbert,\u00a0Staffordshire University<\/em>;\u00a0Laura Stinson,\u00a0Nottingham Trent University<\/em>;\u00a0Sue Beckingham,\u00a0Sheffield Hallam University<\/em>;\u00a0Professor Peter Hartley,\u00a0Edge Hill University<\/em>;\u00a0Neil Withnell,\u00a0University of Salford<\/em>;\u00a0David Wooff, (National Teaching Repository Chair),\u00a0BPP University<\/em>;\u00a0Liam Bullingham,\u00a0University of Essex<\/em> and Professor Dawne Irving-Bell, BPP University.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lucinda Bromfield is a \u2018pracademic\u2019 having been a practising employment solicitor before joining BPP University Law School. 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