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National Digital Learning Repository - Ireland
If You Build It, Will They Come?: Strategies for Community Enhanced
Learning Repositories
Catherine BruenDr. Vincent P. Wade
National Digital Learning RepositoryIreland www.ndlr.ie
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Outline• What is the NDLR
– Brief Tour of NDLR website, content and subject areas
• Strategies for Populating a repository
• NDLR Approach - Community (of Users) Driven Repositories
• Current NDLR Communities of Practice
• Successes to Date
• The bottom line
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Strategies for Populating a Repository
Strategy 1:Take existing content, Populate the repository with it, Provide
access to existing users
Strategy 2: Develop bespoke content for intended use by individual users,
Provide access to the intended users & support their intended use
Strategy 3:Support the intended communities of users in populating the
repository themselves with new (bespoke) and existing resources
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Strategy 1Take existing content, populate repository
and provide access to existing users
Benefits– Existing content…
ensures rapid population
Threats– Repository as a
dump
– Repository as an archive (for longevity)
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Strategy 2 Develop bespoke content for intended use
Benefits(i) Populate with fresh
content = “current” motivation for usage
(ii) Active engagement with real users
(iii) Quality Assured resources
Threats(i) Can end up with
content whose reuse is unproven
(ii)Sustainability issues (a) Not sustainable to continue
paying users to develop content
(iii) Higher costs
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Strategy 3Support the intended Communities of Users in populating the repository themselves with new and existing resources
Advantages(i) Directly supports sustainability of user activity/usage
(a) Sustainable Structure i.e. Community becomes less fatigued than individual user(b) Community can be an existing (or long lived) networks of users (e.g. Irish Learning
Technology Association )
(ii) New Communities(a) Explicit support for Community forming and self reliance(b) Support to help them sustain themselves (c) Resources for meetings, networks, forming)
(iii) Benefit from economies of scale and community impact
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Strategy 3Support the intended Communities of Users in populating the
repository themselves with new and existing resources
Disadvantages(i) Attempting to constantly create new communities
(a) Communities have to grow incrementally
(ii) “Lurking” Communities (a) Existing networks becoming communities for short term gains and finance, but reverts
back to original network/devolve once initial funding period is over
(iii)Careful management to ensure even balance of :(a) CoP identifying with (or ownership of) repository(b) Without any loss or drain to identity of community itself
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NDLR Approach(Strategy 3)
NDLR CoP Coordinators (presented by my colleagues): • CoPs in the context of the Literature • Common principles of NDLR Communities of Practice
– When every CoP has its own unique identity & needs
• Picture on the ground…barriers & challenges facing CoPs
NDLR• Nurturing and supporting CoPs
– “while communities of practice need to be spontaneous and self-directed, guidelines can be helpful in creating the conditions for them to flourish”
A framework of seven principles, Wenger, McDermott & Snyder (2002)
– NDLR Working Model for supporting a CoP Driven Repository, within context of:• Case studies of current CoPs (e.g. Veterinary Environmental Sciences CoP) • Some existing models** • While identifying critical points for supporting CoPs to make the repository “Their Own”
** Wenger, McDermott & Snyder, 2003; The CAMEL (Collaborative Approaches to the Management of E-Learning) model http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/camel/camel-model/ ; The ESEN Project - http://www.esen.eu.com/
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QA, activities, decision making, training, best practice use of the RLOs, Re-Use, etc.
Current Practice
At the heart of NDLR success is core relationship
between Repository and the
Users (CoPs)
Users(CoPs)
own Repository
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Stages NDLR Support & Guidance Framework for a Working Model
Stage 1 – Pilot Stage - Emergent CoPs Forming/Storming
Identify partners, build trust, identify common goals & experiences, begin to formalise informal relationships
Depending on CoP stage of Development, NDLR typically provide:
•Funding
•Training & Information
• Access to NDLR Training events and resources for e-Learning, Teaching and Learning and Content Sharing.
•Advice, Guidance & Support
• Coordination of their CoP.
• NDLR licensing issues.
• NDLR metadata issues.
• Design, Development & Reuse of RLOs
• Using & Reusing RLOs on the Ground
• Technical, PR & Links
• Online tools for Collaboration, Websites, blogs, Wiki, etc.
• Repository accounts / CoP Categories
• Assistance with coordination of launch or community events with NDLR partner institutions
• PR materials for NDLR & CoP related events.
• Advertisement & promotion through NDLR partner contacts.
Stage 2 - Norming / Performing
Identity of the community, identify self-supporting/sustaining models, sharing resources, good practice, knowledge transfer/exchange, realise innovation
Stage 3Adjourning / Transforming
Future practices - How to move forward & innovate, continue to build upon good practice, Identify locus and context of Community (subject domain and nationally/internationally)
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Funding
Training & Information
Guidance & Support
Technical, PR & Links
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Current Communities of Practice
• Applied Social Studies (ASSCoP)• Bio-Technology (BioTech CoP)• Chemical and Physical Sciences (CPSCoP)• Computer Science (CSCoP)• Education (EDUCoP)• Library Information Skills• Mathematics and Statistics Service Teaching in Higher Education
(MSHECoP)• Mechanical Engineering (MECoP)• Modern Languages (ModLangCoP)• Nursing and Midwifery (NMCoP)• Technology Enhanced Learning (TELCoP)• Veterinary and Bio-Environmental (VETBIOCoP)• Art & Conflict• Apprentice-based Learning• Student Retention 19/04/23
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NDLR to Date
• Pilot Service fully operational (hosted by HEAnet)
• Jointly administered by all partner institutions – National First!
• 1816 learning resources
• 1197 users
• Cataloguing team – ensure Q.A. of metadata
• 12 Communities of Practice (+ 3 Emergent CoPs)
• National training programme 2008
• Licence agreements (draft) in place
• NDLR Symposium 2008… an annual event in conjunction with all Partners19/04/23
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Bottom line…
Communities of Users ….
USE itBUILD it
OWN itPOPULATE it
REUSE it
……..SUSTAIN it
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Role of the Repository Service Provider
NDLR (core team) responsibilities• Manage & improve services
– Repository (metadata, technical & community services)
• Promote training/awareness/visibility• Extend copyright accesses• Support communities of practice
– Including partial funding• Instigate 'inter community' events
– Conferences, workshops etc.– Support alignment of repository to HE sector
providers (universities, institutes etc.), • Ensure forum for collaboration in running Repository service
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Library Search (UK Jacs)Education Educational TechnologyDigitizing Learning Evidence (Cork IT)• https://www.ndlr.ie/intralibrary/IntraLibrary?
command=preview&learning_object_id=1175 Writing a Summary (Yvonne Cleary, UL)• https://www.ndlr.ie/intralibrary/IntraLibrary?command=preview-
item&learning_object_id=1205&learning_item_id=2256
Library Search (CoPs)Nursing & Midwifery Respiratory Distress Case Study 6 -
http://www.heanet.ie/services/multimedia/videostreaming/ndlr/nursing/RLO_6.asx
Simple Search – “Vygotsky”https://www.ndlr.ie/intralibrary/IntraLibrary?command=preview-
item&learning_object_id=1893&learning_item_id=2997
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