EdShare: Repositories for Teaching and Learning

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• EdShare Repositories for
• Teaching and Learning
• Debra Morris and Jessie Hey
• Edinburgh
• Repository Fringe
• 31 July 1 August 2008
• edshare.soton.ac.uk

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Who is involved in EdShare?

• JISC funded bid Institutional Exemplars
  Programme
• EdSpace Project building EdShare
• 1 October 2007-31 March 2009
• Project Director
• Hugh Davis, University Director of eLearning
• Led by
• Learning Societies Laboratory, School of
  Electronics
• Computer Science with EPrints software team
• University Library
• Information Systems Services (ISS) and Learning
  Teaching
• Enhancement Unit (LATEU)
• Partnerships with
• University Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning and
  Teaching
• Associate Deans Education,
• Deputy Heads of School (Education)
• Educational networks
• Individuals

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What is EdShare about?

• managing, gathering educational resources
• collaborating to develop or extend learning and
  teaching resources
• working with all the parties involved to discover
  how they will best benefit
• showcasing resources for teaching and learning
• institutional practice for small scale re-use of
  resources

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The context for EdShare

• e-Prints Soton institutional research
• repository
• Virtual Learning Environments, University
• Portal, intranets
• eLearning strategy and drive
• University learning teaching initiatives
• reward and recognition

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EdShares practical approach

• EdShare supports access within the whole
• institution, Schools, across groups and
• disciplines
• making resources visible
• with a relaxed approach to adding more
• detail
• courses, tags, level, re-use
• a citation of the item

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EdShare look and feel
EdShare moves from the formality of the research
repository to the look and feel of Web 2.0
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Context of a School Psychology

• Blackboard (VLE)
• PsyWeb (Intranet)
• SUSSED (Portal)
• Which others?
• EdShare fits
• with these

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Context of a Service the Library
Gathering, managing and making visible
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Increasing visibility for re-use
Generic material
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Promoting specific content
Material which is freely accessible
EduServ projects
Slideshare
Biomed Image Archive
HEAcademy resources
JORUM
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Some assumptions and requirements

• Institutional practice of re-use is for small,
  unbundled sections/assets/objects/activities
• Teachers rarely finish materials for teaching
• Lightweight, nimble and portable service
• Simple workflow for adding content
• Easy sharing and finding

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Adding and describing content
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Adding content

• Add actual document/resource or web link
• Items get a persistent URL
• Owner gets the option to add descriptions and
• tags
• Owner can decide visibility of document
• Users can also bookmark/describe for others
• Resources will be automatically indexed by
• Google etc.

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What stage is EdShare at now?

• EPrints software platform
• .soton.ac.uk URL institutional status
• New lightweight interface
• Intuitive and minimal description of
• material required
• Working with a range of practitioners to
• use and develop EdShare
• Spreading the word!

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EdShare access and contact
EdShare the service edshare.soton.ac.uk Email
us at edshare_at_soton.ac.uk Your contacts Debra
Morris and Jessie Hey The Project is
EdSpacewww.edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Grander sites of relevance
Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/
The JORUM www.jorum.ac.uk

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

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Use your EdShare card to jot down ideas for Shares