current directions in educational repositories, p.mc andrew

Current directions in

educational repositories:

my perspective

Patrick McAndrew

Institute of Educational Technology

www.open.ac.uk

Iet.open.ac.uk/courses

6m visitors since launch

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trushu/3712280049

The legacy trap

Search

Solving search

trap

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/151695072

Metadata Trap

Build it and they will come trap

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk

The system is everything trap

http://www.flickr.com/photos

/marcemarc/2385399277/ The one

stop shop

trap

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/

Forgetting

the past

trap

The Holy Grail trap

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritual_marketplace/2207966935

Viscious circle

• Head brick wall

The brick wall trap

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43204851@N00/182910562

Viscious circle

• Head brick wall

The brick wall trap

Reasons to be cheerful?

Be Open

Openness

works

http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1805374441/

Learning does happen

Listening to others

Testing ideas

Keep it simple

How many different types of

learning and teaching approaches

do you need?

How many different types of

learning and teaching approaches

do you need?

Think…

Pair…

Share

Build on the

work of others

Look for the unexpected

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Content Social

Ask…

Traps

• Searching – beat Google

• Metadata – for the good of others

• Audience – they will emerge from use

• System – the backend takes over from the frontend

• One stop shop – ignores reality

• Forgetting the past – avoid reinventing the wheel

• Holy Grail – seeking what does not exist

• Brick wall – carry on regardless

Advice

• Openness – be open

• Participation – routes in

• Involve others – experts and users

• Keep simple – hide complexity

• Build on work of others – mashup don’t build

• Find the right questions

Dr Patrick McAndrew

The Open University

Institute of Educational Technology

Walton Hall

Milton Keynes

MK7 6AAolnet.org