Critical Success Factors for

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Critical Success Factors for Institutional
Change ECDL 2006
Caroline Breslin and David Nicol University of
Strathclyde
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Project Programme
JISC/NSF 2003-2008 Digital Libraries in the
Classroom Programme

• Transform the education process using
• innovative applications of emerging technologies
  and electronic resources

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the project
digital libraries for global distributed
innovative design education and teamwork
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Project Vision

• To enhance student learning opportunities by
  enabling them to participate in global team-based
  design engineering projects that give them
  experience of working within multi-cultural
  contexts. Make this possible through a range of
  information and communication technologies.

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Project Team
Design Manufacture and Engineering Management
Learning Services
Centre for Academic Practice and Learning
Enhancement
Centre for Digital Library Research
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Nature of Design Engineering

• Open-ended,

Collaborative
Requires complementary skills and a wide range of
resources
All design is re-design
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Informal Design Knowledge
Store
Capture
Reuse
Share
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Supporting the Design Process

• How do we support student teams to achieve this?

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FORMAL
INFORMAL
Lecturer
LLE (practice, tacit knowledge)
LDL (process, formalised knowledge)
information from other sources
Team
Coach
Revised Design Knowledge Framework (after Eris,
2003)
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LauLima Digital Library (LDL) longer
term reuse by staff and students
Less Formal and Dynamic
Formal and More Permanent
Storing and sharing content Group Collaboration/
Team communication Cross team activities Workfow
management (process) Manipulation of
information Capturing tacit information Knowledge
structuring
Retrieval of resources Reuse of student-generated
resources, design concepts and sharing
processes Quality assurance Metadata and
standards Granularity Browse/ search
LauLima System Architecture
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Class contexts
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Key Features

• Key Features of LauLima
• Capturing explicit (formal) and tacit (informal)
  knowledge
• Two digital repositories LLE and LDL with
  established workflow between them
• Digital repository for student-created resources
  for reuse in projects
• Strong pedagogical integration with discipline
• Cross-institutional in the classroom(Stanford
  University/Olin College)

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Embedding
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Embedding Framework
Single Discipline
Embedding Framework
Institutional
Multi-Institutional
Cross- Discipline
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Embedding Framework
Single Discipline
Institutional
Multi-Institutional
Cross- Discipline
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Single Discipline

• Technological
• Well supported, adapted to local needs, linked
  to University portal, hardware in place.
• Pedagogical Use of LLE and reuse of resources
  embedded in classroom teaching, training,
  evaluation and quality checks in place.
• Cultural Funding, buy-in, collaboration, course
  team approach remains, uptake

Institutional
Multi-Institutional
Cross- Discipline
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Single Discipline

• Technological LLE and LDL potentially useful,
  some access issues
• Pedagogical Remains pedagogy-led but different
  training and support in place. Quality checks
  different. Resource reuse requires similar course
  frameworks and cultures
• Cultural institutions favour own technology
  different focus at different institutions (e.g.
  research, teaching), legislation differences
  (IPR, DRM).

Institutional
Multi-Institutional
Cross- Discipline
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Single Discipline
Institutional
Multi-Institutional

• Technological LLE transferable but different
  versions and methods of use, different support
  issues.
• Pedagogical disciplinary differences, Use of LDL
  transferable rather than resources within it.
• Cultural Culture of use is use of tool
  appropriate for different disciplines? What
  resources would be stored?

Cross- Discipline
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Single Discipline
Institutional
Multi-Institutional

• ?

Cross- Discipline
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Embedding

• Key Questions
• What is embedding?
• Why Embed?

Class
? Course
? Department
? Faculty
? Institution?
Add Value
, Improve Quality
, Ensure Consistency
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Critical Success Factors
What is critical to our success?
and Why?
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Critical Success Factors
Pedagogical
Technological
Cultural
Project Evolution
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Where are we now?
Global Team Design Project
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QAFurther information
QA

• www.didet.ac.uk
• caroline.breslin_at_strath.ac.uk
• d.j.nicol_at_strath.ac.uk