Towards a local, regional and national infrastructure for sharing
medical teaching, learning and assessment material
Nick Sheppard – Repository Developer
Leeds Metropolitan University
Blogs/twitter:http://acerep.wordpress.comhttp://repositorynews.wordpress.comhttp://twitter.com/mrnick
Open Educational Resources (ukoer)• JISC funded programme• Phase 1 – Unicycle at Leeds Met• All material released under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0• Local release AND via national UKOER repository (Jorum)• Phase 2 – PORSCHE (MEDEV)• Ongoing (Aug 31st) - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer
• Phase 3 - tbc
UKOER project - Unicycle
http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/
• Funded under JISC ukoer (phase 1)
• Develop process by which staff able to contribute to and draw upon a central repository of OER• Granular approach to OER• “Resources” rather than “Courseware”• Simple Application Profile – ukoer guidelines• Mediated deposit• Leeds Met repository, Jorum, other suitable outlets
ALPS CETL
A Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) focussing on assessment and learning in practice settings. 5
Universities (Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan, Bradford, Huddersfield and York St John) crossing 16 health and social
care professions
The ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep)Leeds, York St John, Leeds Met, NHS all have (different) repository systems to manage “Learning Objects”
• Search across multiple platforms for resources• Download resources from any of the platforms• Adapt existing resources to suit local use• (Re)deposit original or adapted resource/learning object
Pathways to Open Resource Sharing through Convergence in Healthcare Education (PORSCHE)• HEA Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV) • Seamless repository access to academic / clinical learning resources for healthcare students• Establish basis for long term partnership NHS / academia• Sharing of appropriately licensed content between academia and healthcare national repositories• Widespread uptake of MEDEV good practice toolkit
• Digital repositories • High capacity storage of digital learning objects• Classify / Search and locate / Manage access / Preserve• Institutional - Leeds Met repository, LUDOS, YSJ DigiRep• National - http://www.jorum.ac.uk/• Subject – NHS eLearning, MedEd Portal• Metadata• Generic / subject specific
Infrastructure
Digital repositories provide high capacity storage of digital learning objects and provide tools to:
• Classify these objects • Search and locate these objects • Manage access to these objects
Digital repositories
YSJ Digirep
Deposit Form(ALPS metadata)Selective
SWORD deposit depending on user-affiliation
All metadata to Jorum
Deposit into multiple repositories
What about resource
duplication?
Harvest, aggregation and discovery
YSJ Digirep
Jorum API
• The repository is dead. Long live the repository. • Web 2.0• mEducator - http://www.meducator.net/• Learning Registry - http://www.learningregistry.org/
Infrastructure (2)
