Community Aspects of the NDLR:

Information Literacy

CaRILLO 2010Catherine Bruen

National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR)Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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Outline

Setting the Scene

• National Partnership• Rapid Change• Diverse Stakeholders• SMART Communities of Users

“to promote and support Higher Education academia in

the collaboration, development and sharing of digital learning resources and associate teaching practices”

What does OER mean to our Community?

“digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and

reuse for teaching, learning and research”

(OECD, 2007)

Open Educational Resources • Protective attitudes disappearing• The contributors are the “Librarians”• Technology • “Resources in the Wild”

“The Wisdom of Crowds” or CommunitySurowiecki, 2004

An Evolutionary Pathway to establish sustainable communities of

academics

Level 1Support individual

AcademicsWithin Uni/IoT

(LIPS)

Level 2Support collaborative

Academics withinSubject disciplines

(LINCS)

Level 3EncourageSustainable

Communities

Institutional Projects

Sustainable NDLR academic communities

• SSustainable• MManageable• AActive• RRelevant &

Reflective• TTargeted

Service team that is:Supportive

Motivational

Accessible

Responsive

Technologically Competent

Individual Academics – Level 1 (LIPs)

NDLR Service supports• Learning Innovation projects (LIPS)• Embedded in HE Sector through

partnership with local programmes and T & L centres

• Quality application of TeL & T & L awards

• Research – teaching - nexus• Responsive & flexible Training

support• Open access DRM of LRs• Intra-Institutional Collaborations

lead to focus on reuse, teaching practices and Learning design

Level 1Supporting individual Academics

Within partner institutions through LIPs

Groups

Groupings of Academics – Level 2 (LINCs)

NDLR Service supports• Learning Innovation Community

Support projects (LINCs)• Liaise with local institutional

coordinators in all T & L Centres• Identification of synergies &

potential collaboration between different academic groupings.

• Support these groupings to make the transition to the collective....SMARTCoPs

• Re-use in integral to the process

Level 2Supporting collaborative

Groups of Academics within

Subject disciplines through LINCS

Networks

SMART Communities of Practice - Level 3 SMARTCoPs

NDLR Service supports• Advice & support in the creation

and use of RLRs• Promote & facilitate information,

national programme, design, development, tools & case studies;

• NDLR community portal• Cross-institutional linking

between academics and projects with shared interests;

• Sustainable, Manageable, Active, Relevant and Reflective, Targeted COPs

Level 3Encouraging Sustainable

Communities

Collective

Some NDLR Resources

Plagiarism Interactive tutorial by Dundalk Institute of Technology

Searching Scientific Databases

Captivate movies for searching Web of Science & Science Direct databases

Enquiry and Problem Based Learning and the Information Literate Student (poster)

ISCOPISCOP community contributions:

have been somewhat slow:“want to update my resource”“want to improve it”

 NDLR can support this through:• Appropriate training• LIP funding• Encourage use through

promotion of others work

Articulate Training 2010

Media, Information & Library Studies Smart CoP

• ISCOP will re-launch as MILS - Media, Information & Library Studies Smart CoP in Oct. 2010 (ISCED and new NDLR groupings)

• Promote collaborations and market MyRI (Measure Your Research Impact) Bibliometrics project funded through NDLR LInCs

Acknowledgements and Thanks

• Nancy Graham• Miriam Allen• JORUM• Our Partners