EdShare: Collaboration for learning and teaching

Debra Morris and Jessie HeySchool of Psychology

Learning and Teaching SeminarUniversity of Southampton,

Thursday 19 June 2008

edshare.soton.ac.uk

• managing educational resources • collaborating to develop or extend

learning and teaching resources• working with all the parties involved to

discover how they will best benefit• showcasing really good resources for

teaching and learning

What is EdShare about?

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

Influences for eLearning and EdShare

•EdShare supports access within the whole

institution, across Schools and disciplines

•Academics provide simple tags which will

make searching easier

•Supported by automatic generation of

some details

•With a clear structure for adding even more

detail:courses, level, re-use

EdShare’s practical approach

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

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

EdShare look and feel

•Add actual document/resource 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 etc.

Adding content

Adding and describing content

The local context

• Blackboard• PsyWeb• SUSSED

• EdShare fits with these

What stage is EdShare at now?

•EPrints software platform

•.soton.ac.uk URL – institutional status

•New lightweight interface

•Intuitive and minimal description of

material required

•Working with a range of practitioners to

use and develop EdShare

•Spreading the word!

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

EdShare access and contact

Open University Open Learn openlearn.open.ac.uk/

The JORUMwww.jorum.ac.uk

Other sites of interest

MIT OpenCourseWareocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm