1. How to improve your web visibility and university ranking
Japura Media
How to improve your web visibility and university ranking
Prof Hiran Amarasekera
Leader, Jayewardenepura Digital Team
Department of Forestry and Environment Science

2. What is it in for me? Creating Google Scholar Profiles
Japura Media
What is it in for me?
Creating Google Scholar Profiles
Jayewardenepura Websites
Staff site
How can you help to improve university ranking

3. 2 1 4 3

4. Japura Media
University websites

10. www.staffweb.sjp.ac.lk (phased-out)

11. Now Social Media is Mass Media
You can reach more people with just one post in facebook than in the cover of a popular newspaper.
Hiran Amarasekera | 2012 |

12. Need traffic to research contents!

13. Hiran Amarasekera | 2015 | www.sjp.ac.lk
Education 3.0 and 4.0
Education 1.0 – Lectures and memorization
Education Internet-enabled learning
open sourcing
Education Knowledge-producing education
Education Innovation-producing education
Arthur M. Harkins, University of Minnesota
Hiran Amarasekera | 2015 |

14. Hiran Amarasekera | 2015 | www.sjp.ac.lk
E-Learning 4.0 MOOCs way
Hiran Amarasekera | 2015 |

15. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
 MOOCs courses are free and easily accessible online therefore large numbers of students can study high quality courses with prestigious universities.

16. Key MOOCs providers

18. Number of courses offered

19. Jayewardenepura Open Learning Platform

20. Digital Library/ Scholar Bank

21. Jayewardenepura Journals

22. Jayewardenepura Alumni

23. How can you contribute to improve University Ranking
Japura Media
How can you contribute to improve University Ranking
Hiran Amarasekera
Department of Forestry and Environment Science

24. World University Ranking systems
Webometrics Ranking
THE-QS World University Rankings
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) produced by Shanghai Jiaotong University

25. World University Ranking systems

26. Webometrics ranking
Largest classification of higher educations institutions, 17,000+ universities
Conducted by Cybermetrics Lab (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain
Twice a year (January and July).

27. Webometrics ranking – Aims
To improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web
To promote the open access publication of scientific results.

28. Webometrics - Methodology
Visibility (50%)
IMPACT. - external inlinks that the University webdomain receives from third parties
The indicator is the product of square root of the number of backlinks and the number of domains originating those backlinks

29. Webometrics - Methodology
Activity (50%)
PRESENCE (1/3). The total number of webpages
OPENNESS (1/3). number of rich files (pdf, doc, docx, ppt)
EXCELLENCE (1/3). The academic papers published in high impact international journals

30. World Rankings North America Stanford University (1st region & world),
MIT (2nd),
University of California, Berkeley (3th)
Harvard University (4th)
Europe
Cambridge (1st region),
Oxford (2nd),
ETH Zurich (3rd)

31. World Rankings Asia/Pacific Tokyo (59th world),
Australian National (60th),
National Taiwan (96th),
New South Wales (112th)
Kyoto (116th)
Beijing (120th) universities

32. 2015 Janurary Ranking

33. USJ why only 5th?
2nd in No of Pages (Presence)

34. USJ why only 5th?
2nd Openness (No of open files such as pdf)

35. USJ why only 5th?
Low Impact
Excellence

36. USJ why only 5th?
But 7th in Impact Rank

37. USJ why only 5th? But 6th in Excellence Rank
(Published Research papers)

38. Need to improve
Impact – No of good quality pages – research reports, educational resources, blogs.
Excellence – Good quality papers published in high impact Journals

39. Ranking of Sri Lankan Universities Jan 2011
WORLD RANK
UNIVERSITY
 SIZE
 VISIBILITY
 RICH FILES
 SCHOLAR
2324
University of Moratuwa
4,165
3,743
2,463
1,665
2552
University of Ruhuna
2,384
9,411
1,965
2,345
2615
U of Peradeniya
4,592
4,847
4,423
1,059
2690
University of Colombo
2,986
1,664
4,417
2,646
4189
Open University
5,622
7,599
4,339
3,111
5830
Sabaragamuwa University
9,286
11,936
6,853
2,130
6068
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
7,287
6,752
5,823
5,068
6104
University of Kelaniya
5,502
7,624
4,751
6,898
9096
University of Jaffna
11,014
5,623
8,374
10264
Eastern University of Sri Lanka
10,102
11,944
8,352
10412
Arthur C Clarke Institute
13,493
14,606
9,831
3,501
10443
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
7,770
11,573
12,890

40. Countries arranged by Number of Universities in Top Ranks - 2015

42. Strategies to improve web ranking ??

43. Strategies to improve web ranking
Publish more research – to improve Excellence rank
Publish great contents on the web – to improve Impact Rank

44. Create a Google profile
Publish in better impact factor Journals
Publish in OAI (Open Access) journals
Start new Journals in our journals.sjp.ac.lk
Upload your presentations, notes, papers, talks to digital library
Start your own blog and publish contents on staff.sjp.ac.llk

45. Start an Open Online Course at www.sjp.ac.lk/sites/openlearn

46. Start a website for your student society, research center at www.sites.sjp.ac.lk

47. Web team University of Sri Jayewardenepura Prof. Hiran Prof. Meegama
Japura Media
Prof. Hiran
Prof.
Meegama
Mr Harsha
Binoy
Dulanjaya
Bandula
Leader – Prof Hiran Amarasekera –
Technical Lead – Prof R GN Meegama –
Officer In Charge Center for information services – Mr Harsha Munasinghe –
Web Editor- Binoy Abeywickrama -
Web Designer – Dulanjaya Chamal –
Instructor, Media center – Bandula Mahesh –