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EdShare: Repositories for Teaching and Learning
Debra Morris and Jessie HeyEdinburgh
Repository Fringe31 July – 1 August 2008
edshare.soton.ac.uk
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 teamUniversity LibraryInformation Systems Services (ISS) and Learning & Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU)
•Partnerships with:University Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning and TeachingAssociate Deans Education, Deputy Heads of School (Education)Educational networksIndividuals
• 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
What is EdShare about?
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
•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
EdShare’s practical approach
EdShare moves from the formality of the research repository to the look and feel of Web 2.0
EdShare look and feel
Context of a School: Psychology
• Blackboard (VLE)• PsyWeb (Intranet)• SUSSED (Portal)• Which others?
• EdShare fits with these
Context of a Service: the Library
Gathering, managing and making visible:
Increasing visibility for re-use
Generic material:
Promoting specific content
Biomed Image Archive
EduServ projects
HEAcademy resources
JORUM
Material which is freely accessible:
Slideshare
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
Adding and describing 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.
Adding content
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!
EdShare the service: edshare.soton.ac.uk
Email us at: [email protected]
Your contacts: Debra Morris and Jessie Hey
The Project is EdSpace:www.edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk
EdShare access and contact
Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/
The JORUMwww.jorum.ac.uk
Grander sites of relevance
MIT OpenCourseWareocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Use your EdShare card to jot down ideas
for Shares