Richard Nurse 11 May 2009 TELSTAR

Introduction TELSTAR: Technology Enhanced Learning supporting STudents to achieve Academic Rigour One of 21 projects funded under the UK Higher Education JISC Institutional Innovation Programme (Phase 2 - Large-scale Institutional Exemplars) Project timescale: November February 2010

Who is involved and What is it all about? The Open University – Library – Learning & Teaching Solutions RefWorks “How can The Open University manage the process of integrating legacy systems into a recently introduced institution-wide VLE?”

Aims To create an exemplar project to: develop a more robust integrated solution for managing library content within the Virtual Learning Environment workflow; model more effective bibliographic resource management; investigate the impact on changing bibliographic referencing practice; support the development of high quality bibliographic management skills.

Objectives Options for developing bibliographies Investigating changes to the e-production process Integrating the bibliographies created with RefWorks into the VLE (Moodle) Incorporate persistent linking technologies Enable bibliographies created to be reused by students Test integrating a RefWorks application within the current ePortfolio system Explore the potential of free tools e.g. Zotero Evaluate staff and user experience Develop a Service Usage Model (SUM)

Current processes and issues RSS feeds of resources developed for each course and fed into the VLE Some courses have access to the MyOpenLibrary resource portal but it isn’t scalable to all courses Many “standards” of citation referencing – do you have a standard style? RefWorks and Endnote used No integration or re-usability of bibliographic citations

My Open Library Course – K315 Critical Social Work Practice

TELSTAR workflow

Project Outcomes Prototype plug-ins within the VLE and the e- Portfolio system to allow integration with RefWorks Expected benefits for: – Learners – Programme and course teams – Library Services – The OU – RefWorks – The wider community – Moodle and HE

Progress to date Project website Team recruited System investigations (OU VLE, ePortfolio system, MyOpenLibrary & RefWorks) Process investigations including the eProduction process Project dissemination

Next steps Refinement of the TELSTAR integration model Detailed stakeholder requirements with Learning and Teaching Librarians and Faculties Development of prototype plug-ins for VLE and e- portfolio systems Disseminating progress through the project website and through conferences and events

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