EdShare: Repositories for Teaching and Learning

Debra Morris and Jessie HeyEdinburgh

Repository Fringe31 July – 1 August 2008

edshare.soton.ac.uk

Who is involved in EdShare?

•JISC funded bid: Institutional Exemplars Programme EdSpace Project building EdShare 1 October 2007-31 March 2009 Project Director: Hugh Davis, University Director of eLearning •Led by:

Learning Societies Laboratory, School of Electronics & Computer Science with EPrints software teamUniversity LibraryInformation Systems Services (ISS) and Learning & Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU)

•Partnerships with:University Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning and TeachingAssociate Deans Education, Deputy Heads of School (Education)Educational networksIndividuals

• 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

What is EdShare about?

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

•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

EdShare’s practical approach

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

EdShare look and feel

Context of a School: Psychology

• Blackboard (VLE)• PsyWeb (Intranet)• SUSSED (Portal)• Which others?

• EdShare fits with these

Context of a Service: the Library

Gathering, managing and making visible:

Increasing visibility for re-use

Generic material:

Promoting specific content

Biomed Image Archive

EduServ projects

HEAcademy resources

JORUM

Material which is freely accessible:

Slideshare

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

Adding and describing 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.

Adding content

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!

EdShare the service: edshare.soton.ac.uk

Email us at: edshare@soton.ac.uk

Your contacts: Debra Morris and Jessie Hey

The Project is EdSpace:www.edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk

EdShare access and contact

Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/

The JORUMwww.jorum.ac.uk

Grander sites of relevance

MIT OpenCourseWareocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Use your EdShare card to jot down ideas

for Shares