towards a local, regional and national infrastructure for sharing medical teaching, learning and...
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Intended Learning Outcomes:- Learn more about the developing institutional and national OER infrastructures supported by JISC - Discuss how these can be streamlined across the sector and improved/adapted to more fully support subject specific requirements (e.g. health)Abstract:The ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep) is examining the requirements of a repository infrastructure in local, regional and national contexts to more effectively facilitate sharing and reuse of appropriately licensed medical teaching, learning and assessment material.Three institutions in the ALPS consortium - the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and York St John University - all use different commercial platforms for their teaching and learning repositories. In addition there is the national HE/FE repository Jorum, and the NHS National eLearning Repository (NeLR),Informed by a user-group of institutional stakeholders, the goal of ACErep is to develop a clearly branded web-site from where staff at the respective institutions can:deposit resources into their own institutional repositorycross-search the repositories from a single interfaceIn addition, we have developed ties with the JISC funded PORSCHE project at Newcastle University which aims to provide seamless access to academic and clinical learning resources for healthcare students primarily from the respective collections in Jorum and the NeLR. The project utilises well-established repository technologies and has adapted an Open Source client to differentially deposit into a user’s institutional repository and liaised with Jorum to harvest metadata from multiple repositories. ACErep and PORSCHE are also working with Jorum on their development of an Open API (Application Programming Interface) upon which we can build a bespoke search portal. This work, in turn, builds on a prototype developed in collaboration with the Xpert repository at Nottingham University.This approach will have the benefit of digital assets being preserved in one location (an institutional repository) while providing multiple points of access as well as allowing the ALPS branded web-site and the institutional repositories to “piggyback” on Jorum’s Google pagerank thereby improving discoverability. The presentation will comprise a summary of the ACErep project to date; the emphasis will not be technical though technical implications and requirements will be discussed.TRANSCRIPT
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/
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