Transcript Engaging tutors in using e-repositories for learning and teaching Andrew Rothery [email protected] Sarah Hayes [email protected] Welcome to our University corridor I will introduce you to some of our.

Engaging tutors in
using e-repositories for
learning and teaching
Andrew Rothery
[email protected]
Sarah Hayes
[email protected]
Welcome to our University corridor
I will introduce you to
some of our tutors,
but they are not in
their offices right
now……
…….they are meeting
together to share and
discuss their personal
repository needs to
support the different
ways that they teach
and the range of
materials they use…..
Professor Y
Prof. Y has used integrated teaching
materials and interactive activities with her
videos. These will be uploaded to JORUM
Open, the UK national repository where they
will be available to everyone nationally and
internationally. Prof. Y is proud of her work
and keen to publish it openly, for others to
adapt and as a way of improving her
reputation and standing in her field.
Dr Z
Dr. Z has used a university licensing agreement to
obtain a collection of video and documentary
material from UK TV channels. This has been stored
in an institutional archive-style repository with a
conventional metadata structure, and access for
students is provided via the VLE. Using the VLE
enables the university to restrict access to groups
of students and particular locations according to
what is permitted by the licence agreement.
Here at the front our two colleagues, Dr B and Dr X, are
demonstrating the systems they have been using
Dr B
Dr X
Dr B uses a media player
system, like YouTube, but
created in-house. He puts
links to his videos in the VLE
so students can view them
without needing special
software on their computers.
Dr B also keeps an entry for
these materials in the
institutional repository where
they can be tagged and
organized for his own use,
but not shared with others.
Dr. X is uses a new Web 2.0 style
repository where his resources
are tagged by personal topics:
research methods, ME101,
reports, schizophrenia, etc. Using
the social networking features, he
shares access with a group of
colleagues at the same university
who teach the same subject.
The Web 2.0 style repository used by Dr X is
Learning Box, developed by Faroes Project
http://languagebox.eprints.org/
Further along the corridor….
….a group of social
science students
produce short videos
as part of their
course and are
required to make
these available for
viewing by the other
students on the
course….
So Dr. C has given students access to an institutional
repository where they can each upload their videos
and search and view the entire collection.
Here we have discussed just some of our
staff and student needs for repositories
• Conventional repositories have not so far
met our needs for e-learning
• A range of solutions, to fit with the ‘flow’ of
tutor and student activities is recommended
• How did we come to believe this?
• We will briefly summarise our experience
from Developing Repositories at Worcester
• And share findings from 3 recent JISC - Joint
Information Systems Committee reports
Our Developing Repositories at
Worcester (DRaW) Project found:•Tutors happy to upload research papers
•Learning materials are more complex…
•Tutors see no point in uploading teaching
materials to a separate system from the
VLE - too much metadata to add! But…..
•Tutors will upload to Web 2.0 systems
like You Tube, Slide Share and Flickr
•A flexible, multi-system approach helps
to plan for both ‘open’ and ‘closed’ access
• An integrated university repository
environment needs support embedded
Good Intentions
• There is a fundamental assumption that
tutors want to share their teaching resources
• This takes place when a need arises
• ‘Closed’ nature of the VLE hasn’t helped
• Examine the ‘motivations’ to deposit
• There are many unique and special situations
• Offer a range of choices to encourage buy-in
Good intentions: Improving the evidence base in support of sharing
learning materials (Currier, Duncan, & Douglas, 2008)
On-line Innovation in Higher Education
• UK should collaboratively provide a corpus of
freely available open learning content
• high quality resources that attract re-use
• Emphasis on a cultural change to tutor,
student and institutional workflow
Question: In the research process, one builds
on the work of others; can the same culture
be encouraged in creating, sharing and reusing learning materials?
On-line Innovation in Higher Education (Cooke, 2008)
And finally… A Road Map to guide us…
• Map out all the roles repositories might play
– E.g. management of digital resources,
open access and re-use
• Be guided by researchers’ and lecturers’ use
of the Web to direct repository development
• Demonstrate innovative use of repositories
e.g. group repository, individual repository,
transitory repository
• Help repository usage into users’ workflows
• Enable learning materials repositories to
move from ‘project’ to a valuable service
Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and
learning in 2013 (Heery, 2009)