Sharing and the institution: choosing, changing and engaging Hugh Davis, Leslie Carr, Jessie Hey, Sebastian François, Tim Miles-Board, Su White, Debra Morris Hugh Davis Learning Societies Lab, ECS edshare.soton.ac.uk

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Do you know what you’ve got? 1000s of teachers spend 100s of hours a year preparing teaching resources Then they put them in the VLE Where (often) no-one except current class can see them – No sharing or re-use – No collaboration – No QA 3

Objectives Bootstrap culture of sharing of everyday resources Showcase our best resources Get our stuff found by the search engines Simple and speedy deposit process – Minimal manual meta- data, – Maximum automatic meta- data – No content packaging Web 2.0 at the core (not garnish) – Pages are about content not metadata – Forefront user identity – Contextual metadata is best – Aggregation and reuse support 4

EdShare Implementation Anyone in Uni is automatically a registered EdShare user. Anyone worldwide may browse/search the EdShare indexes Registered users can upload any kind of file or URL into EdShare and describe it using metadata and/or free-form text. Users control the access levels of their files (typically open access or institution- only). Users select an appropriate licence for their resource (CC?). Items in EdShare are allocated a unique and permanent URL that may be referenced by other systems (e.g. Blackboard). The descriptions of all files lodged in EdShare can be found and indexed by search engines. A user can only retrieve content if it has been lodged for open access. 5

Academic Engagement Pro-active staff engagement Deskside coaching School by School Events Constantly running things through committees Full support from library 6

EdShare is a Trojan Horse Levering our resources out of Blackboard Exposing our content to the world An opportunity for developmental interventions A focus for institutional change 7

The Business Case Time saving Improved collaboration between departments – emerging, interdisciplinary and fast changing subjects A focus for innovation A showcase for excellence A tool for interacting and collaborating externally The software is Open Source. 8

Compared to JORUM (The EdShare stats refer to downloads of actual resources. The downloads of descriptions are an order of magnitude higher) 9 NOTE: This is not a comparison of like with like That’s the whole point

Access Metrics 10

The Files in EdShare 11

Permissions in EdShare 12

Enhancement of reputation for learning & teaching Increased institutional commitment to learning & teaching Organisation process efficiency Savings on re-invention EdShare Conclusions Thank you Questions? EdShare was developed under the Institutional Innovation Programme sponsored by