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JISC Presentation5th Dec 2008
Hugh Davis and Debra MorrisLearning Societies Lab, ECS
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People Involved
• Hugh Davis (PI – University Director of Education – e-Learning)• Debra Morris (Manager – seconded from Library)• Les Carr (Director of EPrints)• Su White (ECS)• Jessie Hey (ECS, Library, EPrints)• Tim Miles-Board (EPrints Manager)• Sebastien François (EPrints programmer)• Patrick McSweeney (EPrints + Faroes programmer)• Dave Millard (Faroes PI)
+ Assorted students and others assisting with content
+ Steering Group (PVC-Ed, Director of iSolutions, Manager of Core Mission and Engagement, The Librarian, Director of LATEU, LATEU e-learning lead, Director of Student Services, SUSU VPed)
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Context
• £300K of JISC funding to be spent by March 2009
• EdShare is the product – EdSpace is the JISC funded project
• The objective is to provide an infrastructure that allows academics to share resources concerned with teaching with whatever audience is appropriate – built on Web 2.0 principles like YouTube etc.
• ECS, Eprints, Library and ISS (iSolutions ;-)
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Where we are:
• We are 14/15 months through the project• We have
– developed a pre-release prototype– engaged with early adopters– produced our alpha and beta release versions– a good amount of resources already shared (1000+)– bought a dedicated server– linked up with the Faroes team– started rolling the service out to users
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Motivations
• Learning Object Repositories don’t seem to work• But we would like people to share
– Improved efficiency – less replication– Improved resources for student– Improved communication– Large Open Content initiative on its way from HEFCE
• Blackboard needs a content layer.
• Want something lightweight, flexible and as easy to use as YouTube and flickr
• The UoS could be a world leader
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EdShare is a Trojan Horse
• Levering our resources out of Blackboard
• Exposing our content to the world
• A focus for change at UoS
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Changing the face of EdShare
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Content foremost
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Guiding principles for EdShare
•Eyecatching previews
•Capturing attention and retaining it
•Engaging the community in making resources visible
•Supporting staff in building confidence to do this
•Integrate links with Blackboard
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Context of a School: Psychology
• Blackboard• PsyWeb• SUSSED
• EdShare fits with these
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What EdShare can do for the University
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•EdShare supports access within the whole
institution, across Schools and disciplines
•Academics provide simple tags which will
make searching easier
•Supported by automatic generation of
some metadata
•With a clear structure for adding more
detail:courses, level, re-use
EdShare’s practical approach
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Adding and describing content
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What stage is EdShare at now?
•Eprints platform
•.soton.ac.uk URL
•New 1.2 version – Empowering the community
•Intuitive and minimal description
•Working with a range of people/schools to
use and develop EdShare
•Creative Commons licenses provided
•Spreading the word!
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What we are planning to do
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Research repository
Learning + teaching
Other academic resources
Repositories in the University - linking the products and activities of scholarship and research
Integration and user focus
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Web 2.0 services & philosophy
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Engaging the academic community
• How to get academics to share?
• Which resources will academics be most happy to
share?• How widely?• How long for?• Teachers rarely finish materials for teaching
• Capitalising on the EPrints features – Teaching Metrics?
• Recognition and rewards for teaching
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Some other Issues
• How to represent “composites” and collections within the share.
• Interface to Blackboard• An institutional “Shared drive” -> Drag and Drop deposit• Copyright and Digital Rights – institutional policy• (Institutional) Search• Use for Educational Administrative materials• Relationship with National Initiatives (Subject centres,
CETLs and JORUM)
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Financial
• And about 5/6ths of the way through the time.• We are about 4/6ths of the way through the money
• There is a big programme of targeted support interventions for specific disciplines and academics planned for January to March.
• Money will also be invested in Blackboard building block support in line with strategic objectives
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Sustainability at UoS
• Ownership across the institution (Schools and services)
• iSolutions ready to take-on EdShare as “Production Service”
• EdShare development process has informed development of EPrints
• Interested to understand what the secondary benefits of this project will be to academics and to the University?
• EdShare project and team at the heart of strategic renewal at UoS – new responsive modes of collaborating between innovators, Schools, Library, LATEU and iSolutions.
• Spin-off repository – SWOT• There are QA and Student Entitlement Issues emerging• How will things change as students start to deposit and
comment and tag?
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EdShare – the Future
• Benefits realisation. Looking to install EdShare (and LearningBox) at other Universities and CoPs.
• The EPrints team will be proactively supporting the EPrints+EdShare approach
• Facilitates open access to UoS materials – allows different modes of external collaboration and presentation
• There are numerous open research questions– Technical– Change Management– Sharing and Open Access– Evaluation
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Use your EdShare card
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