1. EdShare: Collaboration for learning and teaching Debra Morris and Jessie Hey University of Southampton, Deputy Heads of School (Education) Thursday 22 May 2008 edshare.soton.ac.uk

2. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 sharing educational resources collaborating to develop or extend learning and teaching resources implementing an application built on proven EPrints open source software working with all the parties involved to discover how they will best benefit showcasing all of the work of the institution – growing the repository family What is EdShare about?

3. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 A growing repository family at Southampton

4. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Examples around the world

5. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Who is involved in EdShare? JISC funded bid: Institutional Exemplars Programme EdSpace Project building EdShare Project Director: Hugh Davis, University Director of eLearning 1 October 2007-31 March 2009 Led by:  Learning Societies Laboratory, ECS with EPrints software team,  University Library  ISS Partnerships with:  DVC Learning and Teaching  Heads of Schools  Educational networks  individuals

6. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 The context for EdShare EPrints: institutional research repository Virtual Learning Environment, portal, other services eLearning strategy and drive Learning & teaching initiatives VC learning and teaching awards

7. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 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

8. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Influences for eLearning and EdShare EdShare eLearning culture of the University Types of academic resources Innovation in learning & teaching Discipline cultures Academic business processes EPrints software Open access culture

9. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Enhancement of reputation for learning & teaching Increased institutional commitment to learning & teaching Organisation process efficiency Savings on re-invention EdShare What EdShare can do for the University

10. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 EdShare will support access within the whole institution, across Schools and disciplines Academics provide simple tags which will make searching easier Supported by automatic generation of some metadata With a clear structure for adding more detail: courses, level, re-use EdShare’s practical approach

11. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 EdShare moves from the formality of the research repository to the look and feel of Web 2.0 EdShare look and feel

12. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Add actual document/resource or web link Owner gets the option to add descriptions and tags Owner can decide “visibility” of document Items get a URL Users can also bookmark/describe for others Resources will be automatically indexed by Google etc. Adding content

13. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Adding and describing content

14. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 What stage is EdShare at now? Eprints platform.soton.ac.uk URL New alpha version interface Intuitive and minimal description of material required Working with a small range of people to use and develop EdShare Spreading the word!

15. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Which resources will academics be most happy to share? How widely? How long for? What other benefits will sharing bring to academics? What other benefits to the University? Where do students fit in? New media are hungry – to link, to store? This is not just for awareness – next steps….? Some questions EdShare prompts

16. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 EdShare the service: edshare.soton.ac.ukedshare.soton.ac.uk Email us at: edshare@soton.ac.ukedshare@soton.ac.uk Your contacts: Debra Morris and Jessie Hey The Project is EdSpace: www.edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk www.edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk EdShare access and contact

17. Deputy Heads of School (Education) May 2008 Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/ openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The JORUM www.jorum.ac.uk Other sites of interest MIT OpenCourseWare ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm