Case Study: Nottingham Trent University achieves a campus-wide learning community and improved resource sharing with D2L Brightspace

Creating a Learning Community using the Brightspace Content Management solution

Nottingham Trent University (NTU), a top-50 UK university serving over 25,000 students across three campuses and nine schools, needed to promote content creation and improve sharing and management of teaching resources. The core challenge was a cultural shift: creating a campus‑wide “sharing community” mindset so staff would publish, reuse and adapt learning materials rather than work in silos.

NTU launched the JISC‑funded SHARE project with D2L support and implemented Brightspace Content Management, following a four‑step plan: rigorous project management, school and university repositories with appropriate permissions, cross‑departmental engagement and a focused promotion/communication strategy. As a result, staff now collaborate more, share activity templates and learning modules for reuse, reduce duplication and storage demand, and maintain single definitive resources dynamically linked into courses; the project is also integrating external repositories like JorumOpen and MERLOT to broaden resource discovery.

Nottingham Trent University