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EdShare: next steps for sharing in learning & teaching
Dr. Jessie HeyUniversity of Southampton,
Education Development Network GroupThursday 8 May, 2008
edshare.soton.ac.uk
What is EdShare about?• sharing educational resources • collaborating to develop or extend learning and teaching resources
• implementing an application built on proven EPrints open source software
• working with all the parties involved to discover how they will best benefit
• showcasing all of the work of the institution – growing the repository family
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A growing Repository family at Southampton
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International developments
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Who is involved in EdShare?• JISC funded bid - Institutional Exemplars Programme
• 1 October 2007-31 March 2009• Partnership across the University:
Learning Societies Lab, ECS EPrints University Library ISS Schools and individuals
• All of us here
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Where has EdShare come from?
• EPrints: institutional research
repository
• Virtual Learning Environment, portal,
other services
• Learning & teaching initiatives
• eLearning strategy and drive
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What EdShare can do for us
Some assumptions:• Institutional practice of re-use is for small, “unbundled” sections/assets/objects/activities
• Teachers never finish anything
Some requirements• Lightweight, nimble and portable service• Simple workflow for adding content• Easy sharing and finding
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Adding content:
• Add actual document/resource or web link• Owner gets the option to add descriptions and tags
• Owner can decide “visibility” of document• Items get a URL• Users can also bookmark/describe for others
• Resources will be automatically indexed by Google etc.
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We aim for EdShare to be at the heart of the educational process
EdShare’s practical approach:
• EdShare will enable us to do what we wish to do People providing tags will make searching easier
Some automatic generation of metadata With a clear framework for adding more detail:courseslevelre-use
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What stage is EdShare at now?
• Eprints platform• New alpha version interface• 10 metadata fields derived from IEEE LOM and Simple Dublin Core
• Working with people to use and develop EdShare
• Spreading the word!
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EdShare moves from the formality of the research repository to the look and feel of Web 2.0
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Some questions:
• Which resources will academics be happy to share?– How widely?– Why might they not wish to share all?– How long for?
• What advantages would sharing bring to academics?• What advantages to the University?• Should students have “equal access”?• New media are hungry – to link, to store?• This is not just for awareness – next steps….?
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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
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