EdShare: Resources for learning and teaching

Debra Morris and Jessie HeyLibrary

University of SouthamptonTuesday 24 June 2008

edshare.soton.ac.uk

Who is involved in EdShare?

•JISC funded bid: Institutional Exemplars Programme EdSpace Project building EdShare 1 October 2007-31 March 2009 Project Director: Hugh Davis, University Director of eLearning •Led by:

Learning Societies Laboratory, School of Electronics & Computer Science with EPrints software teamUniversity LibraryISS and Learning & Teaching Enhancement Unit (LATEU)

•Partnerships with:University Deputy Vice Chancellor Learning and TeachingAssociate Deans Education, Deputy Heads of School (Education)Educational networksIndividuals

• managing educational resources • collaborating to develop or extend

learning and teaching resources• working with all the parties involved to

discover how they will best benefit• showcasing resources for teaching and

learning• institutional practice for small scale re-

use of resources

What is EdShare about?

The context for EdShare

•e-Prints Soton: institutional research

repository

•Blackboard, SUSSED, intranets

•eLearning strategy and drive

•Learning & teaching initiatives

•VC learning and teaching awards

•EdShare supports access within the whole

institution, Schools, across groups and

disciplines

•Making resources visible

•With a clear structure for adding more

detail:courses, tags, level, re-use

•Citation of the item

EdShare’s practical approach

EdShare moves from the formality of the research repository to the look and feel of Web 2.0

EdShare look and feel

Resources we create

Gathering, managing and making visible, materials we create:

Supporting the curriculum

Material we broker and support:

Promote specific content

Biomed Image Archive

EduServ projects

HEAcademy resources

JORUM

Material we know is freely accessible:

Slideshare

•Add actual document/resource or web link

•Items get a URL

•Owner gets the option to add descriptions and

tags

•Owner can decide “visibility” of document

•Users can also bookmark/describe for others

•Resources will be automatically indexed by

Google etc.

Adding content

Context of a School: Psychology

• Blackboard• PsyWeb• SUSSED

• EdShare fits with these

What stage is EdShare at now?

•EPrints software platform

•.soton.ac.uk URL – institutional status

•New lightweight interface

•Intuitive and minimal description of

material required

•Working with a range of practitioners to

use and develop EdShare

•Spreading the word!

EdShare the service: edshare.soton.ac.uk

Email us at: edshare@soton.ac.uk

Your contacts: Debra Morris and Jessie Hey

The Project is EdSpace:www.edspace.ecs.soton.ac.uk

EdShare access and contact

Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/

Other sites of interest

MIT OpenCourseWareocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Use your EdShare card to jot down ideas

for Shares