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Using the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) in your Teaching Emma Place, Mark Williams, Di Jones

Using the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) in your Teaching Emma Place, Mark Williams, Di Jones. RDN Include. Including RDN content on your website. RDN-include (RDN-I) enables third parties to include the RDN search box and the results it retrieves within their own look and feel

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Using the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) in your Teaching Emma Place, Mark Williams, Di Jones

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  1. Using the Resource Discovery Network (RDN)in your TeachingEmma Place, Mark Williams, Di Jones

  2. RDN Include Including RDN content on your website • RDN-include (RDN-I) enables third parties to include the RDN search box and the results it retrieves within their own look and feel • RDN resource finder • RDN “behind the headlines” service • ASP or simple java script • Supported • You keep your branding!

  3. What is the RDN? The Resource Discovery Network: • A national collection of Internet resources • 100,000 resources and rising • And: • Subject-specific services via hubs / gateways • RDN Virtual Training Suite • Behind the Headlines • RDN Include • Case studies / learning pathways • - JISC funded national service

  4. The problem… …finding relevant, high quality, authoritative information on the Internet • The limitations of commercial search engines • The ‘Invisible Web’ • Automated descriptions: these do not always convey what one really wants to know about a site • Indiscriminate: automatic search engines cannot judge the quality or provenance of data • Lack of precision in search results • Difficulty in identifying relevant, high quality resources

  5. Our solution… How • Use of subject specialists (from over 70 institutions) to identify, assess, and describe high quality Internet resources • ‘Walled garden’- somewhere learners/teachers can go to find reliable information • User submission The result: • Greater precision and relevance in search results • Easy and reliable identification of authoritative resources

  6. Virtual Training Suite Internet training • ‘Designed to teach Internet information skills to the higher and further education communities in the UK’ • Subject-based, ‘teach yourself’ tutorials • 61 tutorials now available (45 for HE, 16 for FE) • Individual “teach yourself” or as part of directed study • Supplementary materials provided for trainers • Specific Key skills referencing • Guidelines for enabling tracking through a VLE coming in autumn

  7. In development FE enhancement • 24 More case studies / learning pathways being developed. • 16,000 FE resources to be added to RDN • Existing RDN resources to have FE specific data appended to them

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