University of Southampton EdSpace Hugh Davis, Leslie Carr, Jessie Hey and Debra Morris edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk

University of SouthamptonEdSpace

Hugh Davis, Leslie Carr, Jessie Hey and Debra Morris

edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk

AimsEdSpace

to change culture in the University of Southampton to share educational recourses to implement an application built on proven EPrints open source software to work with all the parties involved to discover how they will best benefit from

such changeWith:

PI – Hugh Davis – University Director of Education (eLearning) Manager: Debra Morris, seconded from library Les Carr and Tim Miles-Board, EPrints director and manager Jessie Hey: Digital librarian acting as Learning and Teaching Advocate School of Electronics & Computer Science, collaboration with ISS, the

Library, Student Services and the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU).

Institutional Exemplars 29/01/08

Background

Institutional research repository

Institutional VLE, institutional portal, other VLEs

Learning & teaching initiatives


ContextHEAcademy/JISC eMM benchmarkingInstitutional auditPace of change within the blended learning model for the

UniversityInstitutional role of:

eLearning Strategy Committee eLearning Implementation Group


Change agentsThe University has highly devolved management structures – relies on a “change agent network”

DVC Learning & TeachingUniversity Directors of Education Heads of SchoolDeputy Heads of School (academic) Learning and teaching co-ordinatorsLearning technologists, web developers and eLearning leads

across the institutionEducational Development Network GroupBest Practice in Education Group


EdShare PhilosophyInstitutional practice of re-use is for small, “unbundled”

sections/assets/objects/activitiesIf courses are re-used, so are the deliverersTeachers never finish anythingConsequently: lightweight, nimble and portable service is preferred characteristics with complete educational

relevance Storing student bookmarks Comments and review ratings Download and viewed metrics

Distinctively different from the JORUM solution


TechnicalAdd actual document or linkWhen document is added (or later) owner gets the option to

add descriptive data/metadataOwner can decide “visibility” of documentWhen a resource is added it gets a URLSubsequently users can also bookmark/describeSearch based on metadata or search engineResources are automatically indexed by Google, OIAster,

INTUTE Repository search etc


Early workWeb pageBlogTeam members including:

Project manager Learning & teaching advocates Technical team

• EdShare concept Early contributors and champions Ease of deposit Attractive design

Prototype


Developing a visual identity


Adding content


Ease of use


First stage of adding a Share


List of Shares


Refining metadata


Retrieving Shares


Linking Shares to Courses


Major IssuesOwnership across the institution (Schools and services)Getting People to “give us their stuff”Interface to BlackboardCopyright and Digital Rights – institutional policyAn interface as good as YouTube or FlickrAn institutional “Shared drive” > Drag and Drop depositCapitalising on the EPrints features – Teaching Metrics?


Next Steps

Meetings with academicsLinks with reports for Elearning benchmarkingLinks with Institutional Audit reviewStudent Resources departmentCo-design activitiesDissemination Strategy (starting with OR08)


Documents

University of Southampton EdSpace Hugh Davis, Leslie Carr, Jessie Hey and Debra Morris edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk