Ed Share Jisc Jan2010

JISC Programme PresentationJanuary 2010

Hugh Davis [email protected] Morris [email protected]

Learning Societies Lab, ECSUniversity of Southampton

edshare.soton.ac.uk

People Involved

• Hugh Davis (PI – University Director of Education – e-Learning)• Debra Morris (Manager – Library staff)• Les Carr (Director of EPrints)• Su White (ECS academic)• Tim Miles-Board (EPrints Manager)• Sebastien François (EPrints programmer)• Patrick McSweeney (EPrints programmer)• Yvonne Howard (Manager for OneShare)• Dave Millard (PI for OneShare)

JISC Meeting January 2010

Context

• EdShare is the University share – EdSpace was the JISC funded project

• The objective - to provide an infrastructure that allows academics to share everyday educational resources with whatever audience is appropriate o built on Web 2.0 principles and with strategic

University leadership for educational change• ECS (academic group), EPrints (enterprise service),

Library and iSolutions (specialist professional academic services)


Where the Project is:

• We have been in service since September 2008• EdSpace Project funded period ended April 2009• Benefits Realisation:

o collaborative work to extend the take up of EdShare (2 institutions + 1 HEA subject centre)o 2 Assemblies – held as workshops based on core themes from

EdSpace (Web 2.0 and sharing; IPR)• New JISC-funded OneShare Project is supporting

further work:o Wrapped, implementable version of packageo User profile applicationo Preview toolo Implement shared editorial permissionso Integration between VLE (Blackboard) and EdShare


Motivations

• UK HE strategic drive for open educational resources• UoS has a new VC, and is developing a new education

strategy• We would like people to share

o Improve efficiency – less replicationo Improve resources for studento Improve communication

• EdShare’s lightweight, low threshold approach has won support

• We plan to review the role of the institutional VLE


EdShare is a Trojan Horse

• Liberating resources from a VLE

• Exposing educational content to the world

• A focus for change at UoS


Attractive content previews


Guiding principles for EdShare

• Build on Web 2.0 practice• Eyecatching previews

• Capturing attention and retaining it

• Engaging the community in making resources visible

• Supporting staff in building confidence to do this

• Align institutional strategic change and sharing

• Integrate links with Blackboard


Context of a School: Psychology

• Blackboard• PsyWeb• SUSSED

• EdShare fitswith these


Integration and user focus


What EdShare can do for the University


• EdShare supports access within the wholeinstitution, across Schools and disciplines• Academics provide simple tags which make

discovery easier• Automatic access to some metadata• With a clear structure for adding more

detail: courses, level, re-use

EdShare’s practical approach


JISC Meeting December 2008

Adding and describing content

What stage is EdShare at now?

• .soton.ac.uk URL• “Wrapped” version of the software available • OneShare supporting new developments• BR projects supporting extended take up• Extending Eprints’ portfolio • Working across the institution to meet range of use

cases:o Learn with uso SWOT

• Creative Commons licenses offered • IPR work developing confidence


What are we planning next?

• Continue to develop our community of EdShare champions• Collaborating with the OER presence in Southampton

(6 Projects)• Contributing to the emergence of new strategic institutional educational

developments – Learn with us

• OneShare supporting new developments• BR projects supporting extended take up of EdShare

o University of Worcester: WBLRo Open University: LOROo LLAS Subject centre: HumBox

• Exemplar Project for KeepIt• IPR work developing confidence



Benefits Realisation – what we’ve been doing

• LORO• WBLR• HumBox• Learnwithus• MEDEV?• CHERE

• IPR Assembly• Web 2.0 and educational resource sharing Assembly

• Exemplar Project for KeepIt• IPR work developing confidence



• LORO



• WBLR



• HumBox



• Learnwithus

Benefits Realisation - Outputs

• Efficiencyo Sharing of everyday resources has potential to improve efficiency in the community

• Solutionso EdShare software now available as a package

• Community networkso CHERE, Web 2.0 Assemblyo OER presence in Southampton

• Leadershipo IPR Assembly – developing educational resource policies with HEI’s

• Development serviceso consultancy, training, workshops, application development services, systems

integration.all available from EPrints Services


Other issues for EdShare/OneShare?

• Still understanding “composites” and collections in EdShare • Questions which emerge only after repeated cycles of the

academic year• Easy Drag and Drop deposit• Copyright and Digital Rights – institutional policy• Retention policies - institutional policy• (Institutional) Search• Interface with VLE• Use for which materials?• Collaborations with other HEI’s• Relationship with national work: Subject centres, JORUM, and

the OER Programme


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