TAACCCT Repository Services David Walker, Rick Lumadue & Gerry Hanley California State University MERLOT

Introduction What is SkillsCommons? Tour of the site How to contribute materials Preparing for your submissions Plans for the future and connecting to MERLOT’s capabilities

Available Now Repository to store your digital resources Dspace Repository software -www.skillscommons.org Amazon Glacier hosting and back-up “Painless” Cataloging (Extensible metadata) Instructional materials Program support materials Single submission and batch upload tools Simple and advanced search User account registration, roles, workflows

Who Are We? Your Partner Cal State University System – 23 campuses, 450,000 students, 44,000 faculty and staff Collaboration required & “Working for California” Digital library services manage about 1 billion digital assets; 8 years experience with D-Space MERLOT – 17 years in the open library business Over 500 campuses within consortium – many community colleges 47,000+ resources and 127,000+ individual members Over 40 customized services for different communities

Our Starting Line: June 2014… Services for Grantees – at different stages Round 1 ended Sept 30, 2014 + 90 days and extensions Round 2 & 3 underway & Round 4 just getting started Many grantees were awarded multiple grants in different rounds Grantees have different blends of curriculum Leveraging existing curriculum Using commercial curriculum Creating new curriculum (OER) using different tools

How to execute without being executed? Give a Gift and Not a Burden Provide you personalize support services support@skillscommons.org Showcase exemplary practices Give Choices

Tour of the site http://skillscommons.org

Contribute materials Prepare your materials Cataloging CC license – Creative Commons has terrific expertise Format (esp. audio and video) Export package with IMS Common Cartridge Cataloging User guides describe the submission process If you need help, contact us at support@skillscommons.org Upload files Review Submit Edit

Examples Full Online Course Individual Module/Unit Program Support Material Let’s look at some examples of what others have uploaded and how they have catalogued their material.   This first example is from the Grant Project, Accessible Support Services and Instruction for Sustainable Transition to Work (ASSIST). The Lead Institution is Florence-Darlington Technical College. This is an example of how an online course should be submitted. The name of the course is Biology 101: https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/684 As you can see, this is a large file 522MB. The material was catalogued as follows:

This first example is from the Grant Project, Accessible Support Services and Instruction for Sustainable Transition to Work (ASSIST). The Lead Institution is Florence-Darlington Technical College.   This is an example of how an online course should be submitted. The name of the course is Biology 101: https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/684 As you can see, this is a large file 522MB. Let’s look at how this material was catalogued.

The second example is from the Grant Project MoHealthWINs The second example is from the Grant Project MoHealthWINs. The Lead Institution is Ozarks Technical Community College.   This is an example of how a module can be uploaded. This is a listing of Module and Unit Objectives for the Patient Care Technician/Unlicensed Assistive Personnel Workforce Training Program: https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/116 As you can see, this is a small file 84 KB. The material was catalogued as follows: Let’s look at how this material was catalogued.

The next example is from the Grant Project University of Alaska Anchorage.   This is an example of how a program support material should be uploaded. This is a course review: https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/901 As you can see, this is a small file 47 KB. Let’s look at how this material was catalogued.

Going Forward in 2014 Continue to adjust and expand cataloging in www.skillscommons.org to capture the types, formats, and licensing of content OER to Publisher Copyright Learning modules to courses to programs Fully online to blended/hybrid instruction Program Support Materials Adding Terms of Service Improve accessibility services with

Plans for Spring 2015 Improving Usability of Repository for Discovery Not just an inventory of files in different formats with different names Creating a manifest of the native files so you know what you’ll see (e.g. syllabus, assignments, etc.) Packaging content to be interoperable through IMS Common Cartridge, Learning Tools Interoperability, Questions and Test Interoperability Presenting content in a ready-to use formats Within open versions Learning Management Systems Within authoring tools (e.g. SoftChalk; others)

Helping You Choose Your Path We will be looking for some grantees who will work with us to create some “showcase” examples Capture the diversity of projects Demonstrate exemplary practices

“Roadmap” of Services Capture and preserve TAACCCT materials Priority for 2014 and 2015 Enable easy & reliable discovery of TAACCCT materials Priority Spring 2015 onward Demonstrate the adoption of TAACCCT services Priority Fall 2015 onward Sustain the TAACCCT collection and community of developers , partners, and users Priority Spring 2016 onward

What’s the Connection? Community services, discovery, peer reviews, personal collections, Repository of Content

What Types of MERLOT tools could become part of SkillsCommons.org

OER Finder using ISBN’s www.cool4ed.org – in footer

Leveraging MERLOT Integrations Access MERLOT through LMS’s Bb, D2L, Moodle, Angel Webservices enables integration into any website SoftChalk Authoring Tool, Cafe Learn Lecture Tools with Echo360 platform Follett & Pearson content discovery tools Integration Enablers: Learning Registry Metadata Index Learning Tools Interoperatbility (LTI) - IMS Common Cartridge - IMS The Learning Registry Metadata Index allows search engines, such as Bing and Google, as well as other applications to cull information about the materials within MERLOT including educational intent. MERLOT has, with the cooperation of LRMI, added the LRMI metatags to the MERLOT Material Detail Pages so that search engines and applications that understand LRMI metatags can easily extract MERLOT’s metadata such as title, description, subject area(s), educational audience, material type, and the peer review rating given by the MERLOT editorial boards.  LRMI metatags are invisible to the user in a browser, but can be seen within the HTML source of the page.

Moodle Integration

Blackboard Integration with FREE “Building Blocks”

Virtual Labs – 24 X 7, Active Learning, Many are Free Kathy http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/virtuallabs/

Mobile Search Apps MERLOT Search apps for iOS and Android devices. Create a SkillsCommons.org mobile app

Questions? support@skillscommons.org Gerry Hanley PI/Director, SkillsCommons & Executive Director, MERLOT Assistant Vice Chancellor, Academic Technology Services ghanley@calstate.edu Rick Lumadue Project Director/Grantee Relations, SkillsCommons rlumadue@calstate.edu David Walker Technology Director, SkillsCommons CSU Director Systemwide Dig. Lib. Services dwalker@calstate.edu