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Moira MasseyEDINA Learning and Teaching
Projects Co-ordinator
Collaborative Working in UK Learning and Teaching
Projects
Themes of Presentation
• Introduction to EDINA • Collaborative working and action research
at EDINA• Service - EDINA Digimap • Projects
– Xgrain– e-MapScholar
• Contact details
• Edinburgh Data INformation and Access• One of three National Data Centres for UK tertiary
education• Funded by Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC) of funding councils• Part of University of Edinburgh Computing Services• Provides around 20 online information services to UK
tertiary education - mainly geo-data and bibliographic
Collaborative Working• Both in services and projects• EDINA aims for collaboration in technical, organisational and
content issues, with:
- Site Representatives
- Trial sites
- Associate Partners within projects
- Learning and Teaching and other experts
- Other projects within programmes
- Other projects within clusters
- Community• Put emphasis on working with stake-holders and carrying out
effective evaluation of work
Work based on Action Researchprinciples
• Integrating practice with the analysis of practice (Webber and Johnston, 2000)
• Cyclic - Kemmis and McTaggart (1988) - plan, act, observe, reflect, plan again
• Participative - trial sites, field studies, site representatives, partners, L&T Associates, community calls for proposals
• Qualitative research (although quantitative also used)
Action Research 2
• Reflective - all parties involved offered regular opportunities to reflect and comment
• Responsive - actions amended in the light of findings• Emergent - early cycles used to help decide how to
conduct later cycles, both action and research
(Descriptors taken from Dick, B. 2000.
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html)
The EDINA Digimap Service
EDINA Digimap • Digimap is a web-based mapping service, offering
access to Ordnance Survey digital map data• National service, serving 51 HE institutions• Started as e-Lib funded project with six trial sites• Digimap offers an easy-to-use, map-based interface,
allowing:– creation of maps on-screen – printing of high quality maps– downloading of digital map data for use in user’s
own GIS or graphics package
Land-Line.Plus®
• 1:10,000 - 1:1,250• 30% of national coverage
Land-FormPANORAMA™
• 1:50,000• national coverage• contours and DTM
Meridian™
• 1:50,000• national coverage
Strategi®• 1:250,000• national coverage
1: 50,000 Place-names Gazetteer - 250,000 place-names
Data available through Digimap
Digimap - screen shot
Collaborative Working in Digimap - the project
• Trial service was made available to six trial sites, each of which appointed a site representative
• Iterative changes were made to service from work with trial sites
• Evaluation work undertaken, both by members of the project team, and external evaluators
• Project continues as Digimap.Plus, with remit to examine development of service to incorporate aerial photography, historical data and locally licensed data
• Digimap.Plus also working on geo-data survey with community
Overview of Evaluation of Digimap Project
Log Files
Usability Study
Usage Evaluation
TeachingNeeds
OrganisationalImpact Study
What was done?Where?When?Who?Why?How?Where?Happiness?Effectiveness?Impact?Benefits?Problems?Future?
Evaluation outcomes
• Wide range of insights from the evaluation work:– who users are and what they are doing– how the service can be improved– how data are used and how they can be better supplied– supporting users in their use of complex data– teaching needs, as well as research needs
• Wide range of benefits:– improved service and new facilities– all developments based on collaboration with stake-
holders– led to award of funding for national service
Collaborative Working in Digimap National Service
• Currently has 51 subscribing HE institutions
• About to embark upon trial service to 6 FE institutions
• National service works with local support teams - site reps, local experts, computing services etc
• All support teams receive intensive training (four separate modules available)
• Discussion of issues on mailing lists and presentations from users at workshops
• Digimap team feeds user views to OS and JISC
• Geo-data content development work directly informed by national service users
The Xgrain project
Aim of Xgrain To enhance and promote the
use and usability of specialist Abstracting and Indexing, and electronic Tables of Contents, services in learning and teaching
Summary of X-grain• Project led by EDINA, with Associate Partners
• January 2001 - May 2003
• Broker to carry out searching
• Cross-search portal
• Supplemented by learning and teaching materials, including learning objects
• Project supported by 10 Learning and Teaching Associates
• Part of larger programme, called JOIN-UP, addressing linkage between reference sources and full text services
• Further information available at:
http://edina.ac.uk/projects/joinup/index.shtml
Collaborative Working in Xgrain • Technical development work with partner institutions• User requirements and L&T work being undertaken
with 10 Learning and Teaching Associates, to:– Advise on functionality of the cross-search interface– Trial prototype interfaces at local institutions, or
within subject community– Advise on enhancement of the cross-search
interface for learning and teaching use– Assist with development of L&T materials
• Community involvement in developing L&T materials
The e-MapScholar project
Digimap e-MapScholar• January 2001 - December 2002• Aim is to develop tools and learning and teaching
materials that enhance and support the use of geo-spatial data in learning and teaching
• Will enhance the Digimap service for learning and teaching
• Working with Associate Partners from 2 Universities and Ordnance Survey
- and Associates from 7 other Universities, or Subject Centres
• More information available at:http://edina.ac.uk/projects/mapscholar/index.shtml
Digimap - obtaining a map
Using data from Digimap in a GIS or drawing package
The Digimap Skills/Concepts Gap
Users need help to negotiate barriers arising from lack of skills/knowledge
Learning/skills curve
Digimap - obtaining a map
Bridging the Skills/Concepts Gap
Tutorials
Tools
Increasing user sophistication
Learning/skills curve
Using data from Digimap in a GIS or drawing package
Collaborative Working in e-MapScholar
• Associate Partners developing software and learning materials
• Advisors from 7 other Universities assisting with project and user requirements work
• Consortium divided into teams: project co-ordination, development, evaluation, L&T
• Regular meetings for all teams, reports and mailing list discussions
• Community involvement in developing case studies and other learning materials
ContactTo find out more about EDINA services and
projects, see:
http://edina.ac.uk
or email [email protected]
For further information about
e-MapScholar or Xgrain, please contact:
Moira Massey