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

2. 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

3. Available Now Repository to store your digital resources
Dspace Repository software -
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

4. 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

5. Our Starting Line: June 2014…
Services for Grantees – at different stages
Round 1 ended Sept 30, 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

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

7. Tour of the site

8. 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
Upload files
Review
Submit
Edit

9. 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:
As you can see, this is a large file 522MB. The material was catalogued as follows:

10. 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:
As you can see, this is a large file 522MB. Let’s look at how this material was catalogued.

11. 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:
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.

12. 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:
As you can see, this is a small file 47 KB. Let’s look at how this material was catalogued.

13. Going Forward in 2014
Continue to adjust and expand cataloging in 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

14. 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)

15. 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

16. “Roadmap” of Services Capture and preserve TAACCCT materials
Priority for 2014 and 2015
Enable easy & reliable discovery of TAACCCT materials
Priority Spring 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

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

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

19. OER Finder using ISBN’s
– in footer

20. 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.

21. Moodle Integration

22. Blackboard Integration with FREE “Building Blocks”

24. Virtual Labs – 24 X 7, Active Learning, Many are Free
Kathy

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

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