EdShare: next steps for sharing in learning & teaching Dr. Jessie Hey University of Southampton, Education Development Network Group Thursday 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 EDNG May 2008
A growing Repository family at Southampton EDNG May 2008
International developments EDNG May 2008
Who is involved in EdShare? JISC funded bid - Institutional Exemplars Programme 1 October March 2009 Partnership across the University: Learning Societies Lab, ECS EPrints University Library ISS Schools and individuals All of us here EDNG May 2008
Where has EdShare come from? EPrints: institutional research repository Virtual Learning Environment, portal, other services Learning & teaching initiatives eLearning strategy and drive EDNG May 2008
Enhancement of reputation for learning & teaching Increased institutional commitment to learning & teaching Organisation process efficiency Savings on re-invention EdShare 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 EDNG May 2008
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. EDNG May 2008
EdShare Culture of the University Types of academic resources Innovation in learning & teaching Discipline cultures Academic business processes EPrints software Open access culture 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: courses level re-use EDNG May 2008
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! EDNG May 2008
EdShare moves from the formality of the research repository to the look and feel of Web 2.0 EDNG May 2008
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….? EDNG May 2008
EdShare the service: edshare.soton.ac.ukedshare.soton.ac.uk us at: Your contacts: Debra Morris and Jessie Hey The Project is EdSpace: EDNG May 2008