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Directorate of Learning Resources Steve Burholt (eLearning Systems Developer) Rowena Rouse (Library IT Developer) Richard Francis (Head of eLearning) Jan Haines (Head of Library Services)

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Page 1: Directorate of Learning Resources Steve Burholt (eLearning Systems Developer) Rowena Rouse (Library IT Developer) Richard Francis (Head of eLearning) Jan

Directorate of Learning Resources

Steve Burholt (eLearning Systems Developer)

Rowena Rouse (Library IT Developer)

Richard Francis (Head of eLearning)

Jan Haines (Head of Library Services)

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Showcasing your and your department’s research?

Increasing citations in preparation for REF?

Finding colleagues with similar research interests?

Identifying partners for funding bids?

Linking teaching and research?

Improving student access to resources?

Developing flexible, re-usable teaching resources?

Showcasing course materials for recruitment?

Disseminating best practice (e.g. in learner experience research and e-learning)?

Saving time and avoiding duplication in course development?

Ensuring resources are current and consistent across courses?

Sharing resources in open educational archives?

What’s on your radar?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

• Started life in 2007 as the CIRCLE project, funded by JISC as part of a £14m national programme to develop repositories in Higher Education

• The RADAR project continues that work, using Equella software

• Collaboration between Media Workshop, Library and Schools

Background to the RADAR project

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Directorate of Learning Resources

What is radar?

Research

Archive and

Digital

Assets

Repository

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Radar demo

What is radar?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

What does it do?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Brookes research archive

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Learning materials

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Brookes Virtual

Staff profilesAcademics / Researchers at Brookes – outputs: publications, theses, books, conference papers, exhibitions, installations

SchoolsResearch Administrators

Performance metricsRBDOREF

radar – research archive and digital asset repository“..showcasing Brookes research and managing online teaching materials”

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Pilot groups

Research

• School of Technology research outputs

• JISC Learner experience project outputs

• Pedagogic research collection

Images

• Bob Pomfret’s cartoons

• Media Workshop archive of Brookes photos

• Primate conservation image collection (400+)

Video

• Graphics Workshop video streams

Documents

• Business School

• School of Health and Social Care – distance learning

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Radar and the VLE

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Radar and the VLE

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Directorate of Learning Resources

How do you set up a collection in RADAR?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

1: Find the materials!

Research skills collectionsResearch papers

Photos

Self-contained learning activities

Videos

Multiple-choice question banks

Case studies

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Directorate of Learning Resources

2: Decide how to catalogue the objects

Title

Description

Keywords

File format

School

Used on which module?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

2: Decide how to catalogue the objects

Title

Description

Keywords

File format

School

Used on which module?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

2: Decide how to catalogue the objects

Title

Description

Keywords

File format

School

Used on which module?

“Dublin Core”

International standard

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Directorate of Learning Resources

3: Design the “input screens”

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Directorate of Learning Resources

4: Display the data

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Directorate of Learning Resources

• Keep track of documents and versions

• Online teaching materials will be catalogued, therefore easier to find and share

What are the advantages of using radar?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

• Keep track of documents and versions

• Online teaching materials will be catalogued, therefore easier to find and share

• Allows Schools to have public collections to showcase resources

• Brings together research and learning materials (papers, videos, datasets)

What are the advantages of using radar?

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Directorate of Learning Resources

What next?

• Pilot groups upload collections

• RADAR show and tell sessions

• Testing of RADAR / VLE link

• Integration with Brookes authentication system

• RADAR launch - 16 October 2009

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Directorate of Learning Resources

www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar

[email protected]