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Virtual Research Environments

Cynthia van der BruggeJanuary 28, 2014

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Virtual Research Environments• Supports the Research Team in the Research Process• Project start 2009, standard library service since 2012

At the moment more than 20 VRE’s / requests• Microsoft Sharepoint 2010• Sharing and editing files in a secure way with a team

(texts, images, audio, video) (↔ regular cloud solutions)• Data storage during the research (4 GB)* • Special modules*

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Planning and Project Management

Team Calendar

Task List

Address book

Reports

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Communication (internal / external)

Team Discussion

Weblog

Conference website*

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Document and Data Management

Version Management

Documents

Data Visualisation*

Reference Management* VRE

Archiving*

(Meta)data

Access Rights

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Also a role in education?• Connection between research and education is a key

value at Leiden University• Involvement in research is motivating for students• VRE as a platform to engage students• Project to explore this

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Project• Jan 2013 – dec 2014• Looking for 6 various pilots (didactical approach, level,

group size, faculty, etc.)• Conditions for allowing students into the VRE• Didactical aspects, kinds of tasks / assignments• Perception of the VRE, difference with Blackboard• Viable as a business model?• Contribution to university strategy and student

motivation

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Separate educational VRE’s

…discuss their research questions in een forum

… work on their research design in a wiki

… write about their experiences in a blog

… collect data and textsin Document Libraries

Students work in groups on a research topic and …

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Pilot: De Digitale Samenleving

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Research VRE’s with educational functions

Examples of student participation:• Excercises with existing data, e.g. repeating an analysis• Collect or classify material• Use data for their own (thesis) research

Fit the VRE for student use:• Subsite with copy of data and special student

functionality (e.g. separate libraries, blog, forum etc.)• Protect files or restrict access to (parts of) the original

site

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Pilot: Protagoras Sources