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Towards a local, regional and national infrastructure for sharing medical teaching, learning and assessment material. Nick Sheppard – Repository Developer Leeds Metropolitan University. Blogs /twitter: http://acerep.wordpress.com http://repositorynews.wordpress.com
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Towards a local, regional and national infrastructure for sharing medical teaching, learning and assessment material Nick Sheppard – Repository Developer Leeds Metropolitan University Blogs/twitter: http://acerep.wordpress.com http://repositorynews.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/mrnick
Open Educational Resources (ukoer) • JISC funded programme • Phase 1 – Unicycle at Leeds Met • All material released under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 • Local release AND via national UKOER repository (Jorum) • Phase 2 – PORSCHE (MEDEV) • Ongoing (Aug 31st) - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer • Phase 3 - tbc
UKOER project - Unicycle • Funded under JISC ukoer(phase 1) • Develop process by which staff able to contribute to and draw upon a central repository of OER • Granular approach to OER • “Resources” rather than “Courseware” • Simple Application Profile – ukoer guidelines • Mediated deposit • Leeds Met repository, Jorum, other suitable outlets http://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/
ALPS CETL A Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) focussing on assessment and learning in practice settings. 5 Universities (Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan, Bradford, Huddersfield and York St John) crossing 16 health and social care professions
The ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep) • Leeds, York St John, Leeds Met, NHS all have (different) repository systems to manage “Learning Objects” • Search across multiple platforms for resources • Download resources from any of the platforms • Adapt existing resources to suit local use • (Re)deposit original or adapted resource/learning object
Pathways to Open Resource Sharing through Convergence in Healthcare Education (PORSCHE) • HEA Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV) • Seamless repository access to academic /clinical learning resources for healthcare students • Establish basis for long term partnership NHS /academia • Sharing of appropriately licensed content between academia and healthcare national repositories • Widespread uptake of MEDEV good practice toolkit
Infrastructure • Digital repositories • High capacity storage of digital learning objects • Classify / Search and locate / Manage access / Preserve • Institutional - Leeds Met repository, LUDOS, YSJ DigiRep • National - http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ • Subject – NHS eLearning, MedEd Portal • Metadata • Generic / subject specific
Digital repositories • Digital repositories provide high capacity storage of digital learning objects and provide tools to: • Classify these objects • Search and locate these objects • Manage access to these objects
Deposit into multiple repositories Deposit Form (ALPS metadata) Selective SWORD deposit depending on user-affiliation All metadata to Jorum What about resource duplication? • YSJ Digirep
Harvest, aggregation and discovery • YSJ Digirep Jorum API
Infrastructure (2) • The repository is dead. Long live the repository. • Web 2.0 • mEducator - http://www.meducator.net/ • Learning Registry - http://www.learningregistry.org/