national digital learning repository seán o’brien 14 th march 2006

National Digital Learning Repository

Seán O’Brien

14th March 2006

What is the NDLR

• Pilot project with a 3 year life span with an end goal of producing a full ongoing repository service.

• Repository for “Teaching Resources”

• Technology hosted by HEAnet

• Funded by the HEA

• Run by the NDLR partners.

NDLR Partners

• Trinity College Dublin• University College Dublin• University of Limerick• Dublin City University• Oscail• University College Cork• National University Ireland, Galway• National University Ireland, Maynooth• Dublin Institute of Technology

In association with:• HEAnet Ireland

• Dublin Institute of Technology• Athlone Institute of Technology• IT Blanchardstown• IT Carlow• Cork IT• Dundalk IT• Dun Laoghaire Inst. Art, Design &

Tech.• Galway-Mayo IT• Letterkenny IT• Limerick IT• Sligo IT• IT Tallaght• IT Tralee• Waterford IT

Objective

• To Investigate and pilot:– A Digital Learning Resource Repository– A small set of Tools to facilitate easy population of &

retrieval from the repository– Guidance on Copyright, DRM, methodologies etc– Explicit support for :

• Best Practice in the development of learning resources• Dissemination and “awareness raising” programs• Nurturing communities to encourage successful implementation of

the repository

Aspects of NDLRCommunity:

•Academics

•Librarians

•Researchers

•…

Tools:

•Repository

•Collaborative

•Communication

•…

Students

Community

• Inter-Institution groups working toward improving the learning experience

• Various Online Tools to aid academic communities– Collaborative tools from Moodle– Mailing Lists– Video/Audio Conferencing Services

• Online tools not limited to the list above. New online collaboration can be suggested and where possible hosted by HEAnet.

NDLR Portal

www.learningcontent.edu.ie

Repository Services

• Storage, management and retrieval of any digital format including (complex) digital resources

• Tools for Resource Management e.g. workflow, import Packages, …

• Digital Rights Management• Integration with external authentication, • Interfaces for existing library systems, portals etc.• Searching and structured browsing of the repository

Demo

• Biological Sciences – Molecular Biology – Antigen / Antibody Reaction• Architecture - Delphi – Image• Physical Sciences - Physical and Terrestrial Geographical – Climatology –

Web Resource• Engineering – aerospace engineering – aviation studies - video

Current Status

• Pilot repository online and ready to receive Teaching Resources• Some initial communities set up / being set up

– Education• Technology Enhanced Learning• Pedagogy and Teaching in Higher Education• Teacher Training

– Nursing – Computer Science

• Graphical• Programming (Java)• Databases

– Agri Business – Modern Languages

• Some initial Teaching Resources uploaded to repository

Contacts

• Sean.obrien@heanet.ie

• Project manager – Vincent Wade vincent.wade@tcd.ie

• Your Educational Technology contact for your institution can be found on the NDLR website:

• www.learningcontent.edu.ie