Open access to educational resources in energy and sustainability

TEEM16 - Doctoral Consortium

Open access to educational resources in energy and sustainability: Usability evaluation prototype for repositories

Laura Icela González PérezTecnologico de Monterrey

Mexico [email protected]

Dra. María Soledad Ramírez Montoya

Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico

[email protected]

Dr. Francisco J. García Peñalvo

Universidad de SalamancaSpain

[email protected]

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Binational Laboratory for the Intelligent Management of the Energy Sustainability and the Technological Formation

http://energialab.com/

Binational Laboratory for the Intelligent Management of the Energy Sustainability and the Technological Formation"

Binational Laboratory for the Intelligent Management of the Energy Sustainability and the Technological Formation"

Context and motivation





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Evaluate processes related with the preservation, dissemination and knowledge search through open access repositories, it´s gives us the opportunity to improve the experience of users that are immersed in different processes and allows to know the level the users’ experience when perform tasks like manage, disseminate and seek resources inside open access repository by integrating Discovery Tools.


PROFILES1. For Librarians: Management information.

2. For Researchers: Dissemination of open educational resources (OER) about sustainability energy.

3. For Everyone: Central Point for seekers of OER of sustainability energy.



Research question

What is the relationship that exists between the interface’s usability of a open access repository with discovery tools and the experience of them users involved to the use it, in accordance with their characteristics and motivations?


Hypothesis:

Design a prototype usability of a open access repository with Discovery Tools that preserves educational resources of energy sustainability, increases the experience of users who are involved in their processes.


Research objectives

- This research aims to develop a usability evaluation prototype which will offer new insights in the design of the information architecture.

- The results aims contribute with new criteria and parameters for provide flexible interfaces, specifically for the web repositories, as a component of the technological ecosystem of the scientific activity


State of the art

1- Open Access 2- Discovery Tools

Ramírez-Montoya M.S., (2015). Acceso abierto y su repercusión en la Sociedad del Conocimiento.

García-Peñalvo, F. J., García de Figuerola, C. y Merlo, J. A. (2010). Open knowledge: challenges and facts

Melero, R., Abadal, E., Abad, F., y Villarroya, A. (2015) Políticas institucionales para el fomento del acceso abierto: tipología y buenas prácticas

Walker, J. (2015). The NISO Open Discovery Initiative

Chickering, F. W., y Yang, S. Q. (2014) Evaluation and comparison of discovery tools: An update

Deodato, J. (2015). Evaluating Web-Scale Discovery Services Guide.


Repository´s User experience Repository´s Usability Evaluation

Chen, H. L., y Zhang, Y. (2014). Functionality analysis of an open source repository system: current practices and implications.

Meyerson, J., Galloway, P., y Bias, R. (2012). Improving the user experience of professional researchers: Applying a user centered design ‐framework in archival repositories

Yan, Z., Dijkman, R., y Grefen, P. (2012). Business process model repositories–Framework and survey.

Heikkilä, M., Bouwman, H., Heikkilä, J., Solaimani, S., y Janssen, W. (2015). Business model metrics: an open repository.

Hanief, M. (2010). Interoperability of open access repositories in computer science and IT-an evaluation.

Aguillo, I. F., Ortega, J. L., Fernández, M., y Utrilla, A. M. (2010). Indicators for a webometric ranking of open access repositories.

Vicente, R. S., Melero, R. M., y Abadal, E. (2014). Indicadores para la evaluación de repositorios institucionales de acceso abierto

Kutay, S. (2014). Advancing digital repository services for faculty primary research assets: an exploratory study.

State of the art

Constructs


Open Access Repositories Discovery

Tools

Usability Evaluation

User´s Experience

Social referenceAltmetricsAcademic networks

Smart searchSingle Point for found digital, phisical, closed and open libraryManage results of searches

Standars ISO -9241-11Adjust the systems to needs real of them users potential

Semantic interoperability assets.Scientific workflows.Strategies for indexing, searching, and ranking of search results.Best practices NISO.

Heuristic evaluation, Cognitive walktrought,Empirical and insepction methods.


Research approach and methods

• Mixed design method• Population and simple: 15 participants, 5 by each type of profile, to

detect the 100% of them problems (more important) in them different processes of each one (manager, depositary and finder), and will be distributed in different moments of the process of development.

• Study Variables: Discovery Tools (DT), User experience design, Usability Evaluation.

• Instruments and techniques: Study Competitive, surveys, focus group.


Stages

First Stage• Competitive reports, documentation templates, diagrams, workflows,

architecture information and design interactive.

Second Stage• Usability evaluation for tree moments.

• Current version• Validation• New interface

Third stage• Surveys: Identify the profiles of users, them needs, expectative and

motivations for present final results.


Current and expected contributions

NEED

NEED

NEED

Provide a friendly interface that integrates features of science 2.0 for management and dissemination of scientific research.

Integration of the characteristics of the discovery tools and the compatibility with the standards of the open access repositories.

Link people to share information, resources and documents with others.

Considering new trends in information management, interoperability, usability standards, its possible to know the motivations and characteristics of users that use an open access repository.

NEED


DISSERTATION STATUS

The thesis is in the first stage, which involves the analysis of the context of the repository and the documentation of the processes of management, storage and dissemination of the educational resources of energy sustainability. The theoretical framework of the first construct of this research, seeks to validate the criteria of evaluation of the Discovery Tools free or licensed and update them so that these features are integrated in the repository.


ThanksLaura Icela González Pérez

Tecnologico de Monterrey - Mexico [email protected]

Dra. María Soledad Ramírez Montoya Tecnologico de Monterrey - Mexico

[email protected]

Dr. Francisco J. García Peñalvo Universidad de Salamanca –España

[email protected]




Education

Open access to educational resources in energy and sustainability