Ed Share Sharing for learning and teaching Hugh

Ed. Share: Sharing for learning and teaching Hugh Davis and Debra Morris

What is Ed. Share about? • changing the culture in the University of Southampton • sharing educational resources • implementing an application built on proven EPrints open source software • working with all the parties involved to discover how they will best benefit from such change Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

Who is involved in Ed. Share? • JISC funded bid - Institutional Exemplars Programme • 1 October 2007 -31 March 2009 • Partnership across the University: § § Learning Societies Lab, ECS EPrints University Library ISS • All of us Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

Where has Ed. Share come from? • Eprints: institutional research repository • Virtual Learning Environment, portal, other services • Learning & teaching initiatives • Elearning strategy and drive Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

Steps to institutional support for Ed. Share Organisation process efficiency Increased institutional commitment to learning & teaching Enhancement of reputation for learning & teaching Savings on re-invention Ed. Share

Who are Ed. Share champions? • DVC Learning & Teaching University Directors of Education Heads of School Deputy Heads of School (academic) Learning and teaching co-ordinators Learning technologists, web developers and e. Learning leads across the institution • Other enthusiasts • • • Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

The philosophy: • Institutional practice of re-use is for small, “unbundled” sections/assets/objects/activities • Teachers never finish anything • Lightweight, nimble and portable service is preferred • You. Tube/Flickr/Slide. Share characteristics with complete educational relevance § Comments and review ratings § Download and viewed metrics Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

Adding content: • Add actual document or link • Owner gets the option to add descriptive data/metadata tags • Owner can decide “visibility” of document • It gets a URL • Users can also bookmark/describe • Search based on metadata or search engine • Resources are automatically indexed by Google, OIAster, INTUTE Repository search etc Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

What can Ed. Share do for you? § Teacher: looking for resources to enhance your own work § Administrator: repository for learning resources used for students’ assessed work § Student: looking for useful materials § Librarian: identify ways to link effectively to the curriculum § University: showcase for institutional products, efficiency in business processes Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

Ed. Share within the University Culture of the University Open access culture Types of academic resources Ed. Shar e EPrints software Academic business processes Innovation in learning & teaching Discipline cultures

What are Ed. Share’s limits? • Ed. Share will only generate limited metadata § Effective search and retrieval requires rich metadata § It will provide a clear framework for metadata requirements § It will provide opportunities for content providers to provide their own tags Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

What stage is Ed. Share at now? • Eprints platform • New alpha version GUI • 10 metadata fields derived from IEEE LOM and Simple Dublin Core • Working with champions, partner Schools and enthusiastic individuals • Spreading the word! Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

Ed. Share moves from the formality of EPrints to the look and feel of Web 2. 0 Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

Some Questions this will raise • Will academics be happy to share their resources? – How widely? – And why might they not wish to? • What advantages would sharing bring to a teacher? • What advantages to the University? • Should students have “equal access”? Learning & Teaching Week April 2008

To work with us: Email: edshare@soton. ac. uk or Debra Morris: dm 2@soton. ac. uk Learning & Teaching Week April 2008