Transcript E-SHARING: Developing use of e-repositories for learning and teaching Viv Bell Andrew Rothery University of Worcester, UK Eunis 2006, Tartu, Estonia.

E-SHARING: Developing use
of e-repositories for learning
and teaching
Viv Bell
Andrew Rothery
University of Worcester, UK
Eunis 2006, Tartu, Estonia
Content Repositories
 More than a simple document store
 Use metadata – to tag for storage and
retrieval
 Online systems which will enable tutors to
both upload and download learning
materials
The UK Situation
 JORUM - the national repository service
 JORUM Searchable online library of earning and
teaching resources
 Universities’ own repositories – include research
repositories for research papers
The University of Worcester Repository
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Bespoke repository CoRe for demo see:
http://learning.covcollege.ac.uk/demo/
Accessed using staff portal
Content repository has both a search and
browse section, and an upload facility
 Checked by librarians who review the
metadata
Back
Next
The WM-Share Project
http://www2.worc.ac.uk/wm-share/
 A JISC-funded project
 Use of repositories
 Sharing teaching content
What we found……
 Less use of repositories for sharing
teaching content than expected
 Less resistance to sharing teaching
materials amongst staff than expected
Survey into tutors’ attitudes to sharing
 It was a surprise to find out that lecturers
are indeed willing to share, mostly:
 Documents
 Presentation slides
Where do lecturers obtain their eresources?
 World wide web
 Online resource networks
 A digital content repository
91.5%
34.6%
7.7%
“Happiness to share”
Sharing Practice
I don’t share
I share with colleagues in my
department
I share with other members of a
distributed teaching team
I share with other subject specialists
outside my institutions
I share within a specific project
%of lecturers
19.2
74.6
10.8
8.5
I make materials available to anyone
6.2
6.2
Other
3.8
Willingness for repositories
 62.2% of our sample would be willing to upload
their own teaching materials to a digital content
repository
 93.5% said they would like to be able to search
for teaching materials of interest in a digital
content repository
Attitude to using
 76.3% said they would not mind
completing an online form
 89.9% want to be acknowledged as
creator of those materials
 Share e-materials with colleagues they
work with, know and trust
Scenarios for sharing
 Group of lecturers in different universities
 Team of tutors in same university
 A course is taught across several
institutions
 An individual lecturer who teaches
specialist courses
What a university should do
 Universities and colleges should set up
their own institutional repositories
 One for research and academic
publications
 Another for learning and teaching
 WM-Share supports JISC’s advice
Online repository for learning
materials
 Set up a working party
 Library staff, e-learning support staff and
IT
 Contributions best sought from existing
groups
 Fill the repository with online learning
materials that are already available
Student access to the
resources
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E-learning systems eg VLE
Tutors’ web pages
Wikis
Not an open e-library, only staff direct access
Each resource has its own URL so can be linked
IPR Concerns
 Encourage a “copyright free” culture
 University/college materials are duly
acknowledged
 Open resources – MIT in the US and Oxford
University in the UK
Regional Sharing
 Storage/access of materials produced by project
groups and subject teams in the local region
 Courses are jointly taught
 Subject specialist groups of projects locally
 Through such communities you would be
providing regional services
Contact
http://www.worcester.ac.uk
Viv Bell
[email protected]
Andrew Rothery
[email protected]