1. EdShare: Repositories for Teaching and Learning
Debra Morris and Jessie Hey
Edinburgh
Repository Fringe
31 July – 1 August 2008
edshare.soton.ac.uk

2. Who is involved in EdShare?
JISC funded bid: Institutional Exemplars Programme
EdSpace Project building EdShare
1 October March 2009
Project Director:
Hugh Davis, University Director of eLearning
Led by:
Learning Societies Laboratory, School of Electronics &
Computer Science with EPrints software team
University Library
Information Systems Services (ISS) and Learning & Teaching
Enhancement Unit (LATEU)
Partnerships with:
University Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning and Teaching
Associate Deans Education,
Deputy Heads of School (Education)
Educational networks
Individuals

3. What is EdShare about?
managing, gathering educational resources
collaborating to develop or extend learning and teaching resources
working with all the parties involved to discover how they will best benefit
showcasing resources for teaching and learning
institutional practice for small scale re-use of resources

4. The context for EdShare
e-Prints Soton: institutional research
repository
Virtual Learning Environments, University
Portal, intranets
eLearning strategy and drive
University learning & teaching initiatives
reward and recognition

5. EdShare’s practical approach
EdShare supports access within the whole
institution, Schools, across groups and
disciplines
making resources visible
with a relaxed approach to adding more
detail:
courses, tags, level, re-use
a citation of the item

6. EdShare look and feel
EdShare moves from the formality of the research repository to the look and feel of Web 2.0

7. Context of a School: Psychology
Blackboard (VLE)
PsyWeb (Intranet)
SUSSED (Portal)
Which others?
EdShare fits
with these

8. Context of a Service: the Library
Gathering, managing and making visible:

9. Increasing visibility for re-use
Generic material:

10. Promoting specific content
Material which is freely accessible:
EduServ projects
Slideshare
Biomed Image Archive
HEAcademy resources
JORUM

11. Some assumptions and requirements
Institutional practice of re-use is for small, “unbundled” sections/assets/objects/activities
Teachers rarely finish materials for teaching
Lightweight, nimble and portable service
Simple workflow for adding content
Easy sharing and finding

12. Adding and describing content

13. Adding content Add actual document/resource or web link
Items get a persistent URL
Owner gets the option to add descriptions and
tags
Owner can decide “visibility” of document
Users can also bookmark/describe for others
Resources will be automatically indexed by
Google etc.

14. What stage is EdShare at now?
EPrints software platform
.soton.ac.uk URL – institutional status
New lightweight interface
Intuitive and minimal description of
material required
Working with a range of practitioners to
use and develop EdShare
Spreading the word!

15. EdShare access and contact
EdShare the service: edshare.soton.ac.uk
us at:
Your contacts: Debra Morris and Jessie Hey
The Project is EdSpace:

16. Grander sites of relevance
Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/
The JORUM
MIT OpenCourseWare
ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

17. Use your EdShare card to jot down ideas
for Shares