edshare: sharing for learning and teaching hugh davis and debra morris
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EdShare: Sharing for learning and teaching Hugh Davis and Debra Morris
What is EdShare about?• changing the culture in the University of Southampton
• sharing educational resources • implementing an application built on proven EPrints open source software
• working with all the parties involved to discover how they will best benefit from such change
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Who is involved in EdShare?• JISC funded bid - Institutional Exemplars Programme
• 1 October 2007-31 March 2009• Partnership across the University:
Learning Societies Lab, ECS EPrints University Library ISS
• All of us
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Where has EdShare come from?
• Eprints: institutional research
repository
• Virtual Learning Environment, portal,
other services
• Learning & teaching initiatives
• Elearning strategy and drive
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Steps to institutional support for EdShare
Who are EdShare champions?
• DVC Learning & Teaching• University Directors of Education
• Heads of School• Deputy Heads of School (academic)
• Learning and teaching co-ordinators• Learning technologists, web developers and eLearning leads across the institution
• Other enthusiasts
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The philosophy:• Institutional practice of re-use is for small, “unbundled” sections/assets/objects/activities
• Teachers never finish anything• Lightweight, nimble and portable service is preferred
• YouTube/Flickr/SlideShare characteristics with complete educational relevance Comments and review ratings Download and viewed metrics
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Adding content:
• Add actual document or link• Owner gets the option to add descriptive data/metadata tags
• Owner can decide “visibility” of document• It gets a URL• Users can also bookmark/describe• Search based on metadata or search engine• Resources are automatically indexed by Google, OIAster, INTUTE Repository search etc
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What can EdShare do for you? Teacher: looking for resources to enhance your own work
Administrator: repository for learning resources used for students’ assessed work
Student: looking for useful materials Librarian: identify ways to link effectively to the curriculum
University: showcase for institutional products, efficiency in business processes
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EdShare within the University
What are EdShare’s limits?
• EdShare will only generate limited metadata Effective search and retrieval requires rich metadata
It will provide a clear framework for metadata requirements
It will provide opportunities for content providers to provide their own tags
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What stage is EdShare at now?
• Eprints platform• New alpha version GUI• 10 metadata fields derived from IEEE LOM and Simple Dublin Core
• Working with champions, partner Schools and enthusiastic individuals
• Spreading the word!
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EdShare moves from the formality of EPrints to the look and feel of Web 2.0
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Some Questions this will raise• Will academics be happy to share their resources?– How widely?– And why might they not wish to?
• What advantages would sharing bring to a teacher?
• What advantages to the University?• Should students have “equal access”?
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To work with us:
Email: [email protected]
or
Debra Morris: [email protected]
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