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EdShare and MHLS: Collaboration for Teaching and Learning Jessie Hey and Debra Morris MHLS

EdShare and MHLS: Collaboration for Teaching and Learning Jessie Hey and Debra Morris MHLS Faculty Education Committee, University of Southampton, Thursday 29 January 2009 edshare.soton.ac.uk. What is EdShare about?. managing educational resources

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EdShare and MHLS: Collaboration for Teaching and Learning Jessie Hey and Debra Morris MHLS

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  1. EdShare and MHLS: • Collaboration for • Teaching and Learning • Jessie Hey and Debra Morris • MHLS • Faculty Education Committee, • University of Southampton, • Thursday 29 January 2009 • edshare.soton.ac.uk

  2. What is EdShare about? • managing educational resources • collaborating to develop or extend learning and teaching resources • presenting resources for service teaching • working with all the parties involved to discover how they will best benefit • showcasing really good resources for teaching and learning

  3. The context for EdShare • e-Prints Soton: institutional • research repository • Blackboard, SUSSED, other services • eLearning strategy and drive • Learning & teaching • initiatives • VC learning and teaching • awards

  4. EdShare’s practical approach • EdShare supports access within the whole • institution, across Schools and disciplines • Academics provide simple tags for searching • Supported by automatic generation of • some details • You can choose to add more detail: course codes, level, re-use

  5. Some assumptions and requirements • Gathering and managing materials can be a • challenge • Practice of re-use is for small, “unbundled” • sections/assets/objects/activities • Lightweight and nimble service • Simple workflow for adding content • Easy sharing and finding

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

  7. Adding content • Add document(s)/resource(s) 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 and other search engines

  8. EdShare http://edshare.soton.ac.uk

  9. Adding and describing content • Login to EdShare

  10. The local context • Blackboard/Medis • School intranet • SUSSED • EdShare fits with these

  11. Previewing, downloading, linking....

  12. What stage is EdShare at now? • EPrints software platform • .soton.ac.uk – institutional commitment • New lightweight interface • Intuitive and minimal description of • material required • Working with a range of practitioners to • use and develop EdShare • Spreading the word!

  13. EdShare access and contact 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

  14. Going the whole hog Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/ The JORUM www.jorum.ac.uk MIT OpenCourseWare • ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

  15. Use your EdShare card to jot down ideas for Shares

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