SWITCHcollection The Swiss e-Learning Content Exchange Platform TNC 2009, Málaga Rolf Brugger

© 2009 SWITCH SWITCHcollection: Learning Object Repository community repository to share various kinds of digital learning content of swiss universities

© 2009 SWITCH Goals and Motivation Re-use e-learning content Open access to e-learning contents Enhance collaboration (intra- and inter-institutional) Make teaching activities visible to peers and to the public Make teaching activities citable and referenceable Increase quality of education Attract students (Marketing) Long-term archiving and distribution of content with stable URL (content lifecyle) Single point of entry for all kinds of e-learning contents - independently from distribution platform

© 2009 SWITCH General decisions restrictions, requirements –currently only learning objects –currently only Switzerland covered –currently limited to higher education no restrictions or constraints –granularity: course, module, lesson, image, video clip, pdf-doc,... –license: creative commons, commercial,... –access rights: public (free), restricted (group, private) –no formal quality criteria or reviewing (content managed by teachers) national system entirely based on open source software –Fedora, Lucene –OAI-PMH: PKP Open Archives Harvester, Harrow (developed by SWITCH)

© 2009 SWITCH Architecture: Federation UniZH Math-Nat Philosoph. Vet'medizin Medizin Wirtschaftsw. Rechtswiss. Theologie FHO Tech / IT / Bau Gesundheitsw. Planung / Wirtsch. Soziale Arbeit St. Gallen Rappersw. Buchs Chur EPFL Arch / Civil Eng. Chem / Math / Phys Engineering Inform. / Communic. Life Science Humanities Tech. Management

© 2009 SWITCH Federation, Search Index, APIs Institutional Repository Community Repository Federation Community Search and Download Search Index Harvester Embedded Search and Download... OAI-PMH REST Applications Upload Form

© 2009 SWITCH Folder Concept UZH UniBE Rechtswiss. Medizin Philosoph.Gender Studies Grundlagen Themen

© 2009 SWITCH Metadata Model - Subset of Dublin Core Mandatory –title –author –usage license (cc, +) –access and edit rights –discipline (contr. vocabulary) Automatic –unique id –creation date –modification date –modification history –... Optional –contributor(s) –publisher –rights holder –table of contents –abstract –keywords –description –language –publication date –education level –instructional method –bibliographic citation –extent (duration) –source id

© 2009 SWITCH Folders: Multiple Associations UZH UniBE Rechtswiss. Medizin Philosoph. Gender Studies

© 2009 SWITCH Embedding Search Functions in Web Sites Search Search in Subset Browse

© 2009 SWITCH Customizable Interface Simple / advanced Adapted to content type Adapted to corporate identity To enforce workflows Web-Services interface for custom front ends Repository Engine Uni A Uni B: CMS Videoportal Web Services API LMS adapter Image Library adapter

© 2009 SWITCH First Experiences and Challenges What works –sharing in well defined workgroups –contributions related to projects –automated ingest from attached applications / repositories Open question –contributions from individuals? Courses contain copyrighted material Learning contents - personal property of teachers Missing business models Missing incentives: additional work without compensation no culture established as with –Open Source Software –YouTube, Wikipedia,... –Research

© 2009 SWITCH Comparison: Research and Education ResearchEducation FundingEmployer / School Publicationas much as possible, support from editions usually not Quality assurance Peer-Reviewinternal evaluation Re-usagenecessary, citation rules, contents can be changed, merged, copied Text books, reluctantly or "secretly" with Google ControllingNumber of publications, Citation Index, Impact Factor internal evaluation, (StudiVZ, myProf) Guiding principle Research results have to circulate ?

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