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Collaboration and sharing in practice: an interactive citation guide for the law community

Collaboration and sharing in practice: an interactive citation guide for the law community. Cathie Jackson Senior Consultant: Information Literacy & Subject Librarian: Law Cardiff University. Outline. What makes a learning object repurposable? Case Study: OSCOLA e-learning resources

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Collaboration and sharing in practice: an interactive citation guide for the law community

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  1. Collaboration and sharing in practice: an interactive citation guide for the law community Cathie Jackson Senior Consultant: Information Literacy & Subject Librarian: Law Cardiff University

  2. Outline • What makes a learning object repurposable? • Case Study: OSCOLA e-learning resources • Where might we store or find resources to share? • Case Study: Jorum • Incentives and disincentives to sharing

  3. Case Study • A need at Cardiff Law School for an online resource for the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) • Interactive materials not available elsewhere • Funding from UK Centre for Legal Education • Partners at Oxford and Staffordshire Universities and others

  4. Results • Short stand-alone tutorial • Bite-sized materials for repurposing – diagrams, quizzes, interactive exercises • Launched October 2006 • By February 2007, 20+ UK universities using the tutorial

  5. “I cannot stress how valuable I think the resource will be to existing students such as myself and also to incoming students this semester. I quite simply can't fault it and really like the way you used those diagrams on the how to cite cases pages in particular.” Daniel Wiggins, Student, Cardiff Law School “This is an excellent piece of work - well done! We will definitely be putting it on our Web page here in Manchester in a prominent place and encourage students to use it.” Sue Bate, Law Librarian, Manchester University “Last night was my first chance to try it out on a group of part time LL.B who are just embarking on their project, and who have "referencing jitters" !! They declared it far superior to my help sheet (not surprisingly) and it made demonstrating the points so very easy on screen.” Alison Cousins, Senior Information Adviser, London South Bank University The tutorial on OSCOLA is excellent – a must for the [IALS] electronic law library and VLE.“ Steve Whittle, Information Systems Manager, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

  6. Citing the Law tutorial http://ilrb.cardiff.ac.uk/oscola

  7. Repurposable learning objects Each diagram and interactive exercise is available independently of the tutorial • Adapt to different environments or learning outcomes • Paste into existing resources • Branding kept to a minimum • Navigation separated from the learning objects Tutorial and learning objects deposited in Jorum

  8. Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk A free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK FE and HE institutions helping to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials

  9. Benefits of Jorum for IL contributors • Jorum licence • Extending availability of information literacy resources beyond the library community • Tracking use

  10. Usage made of the OSCOLA resources in Jorum: Oct 2006 – Feb 2007 The number in parentheses indicates the number of different institutions

  11. Incentives for sharing resources • Funding * • Expertise of external partners • Developing the community of practice * • Recognition / kudos * * See Engaging the Legal Education Community – a report from the UKCLE Good Practice in sharing resources in law project (2006) http://www.ukcle.ac.uk/research/projects/sharing.html

  12. Summing up • OSCOLA case study • Designing for sharing • Stand-alone tutorial and pick ’n mix • Jorum • Cross-disciplinary • Can we use it to develop our IL community of practice?

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