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EdShare, OERs and impact

EdShare, OERs and impact. Debra Morris University Library University of Southampton edshare.soton.ac.uk. EdShare. An infrastructure that allows the institution to share educational resources with whatever audience is appropriate built on Web 2.0 principles

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EdShare, OERs and impact

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  1. EdShare, OERs and impact Debra Morris University Library University of Southampton edshare.soton.ac.uk

  2. EdShare • An infrastructure that allows the institution to share educational resources with whatever audience is appropriate • built on Web 2.0 principles • Cross institutional partnership: • ECS (academic group), • EPrints (enterprise service) • Library and • iSolutions (professional specialist academic services) OU_March_2011

  3. What EdShare offers • Showcase for learning and teaching materials • Sharing across the institution • Sharing with just a few people or with many • Collaborating between and across disciplines • Access to the institution’s intellectual resources for education OU_March_2011

  4. Motivations • UK HE strategic drive for open educational resources (OER) • UoS launched a new education strategy in 2010 • New Southampton Learning Environment is being developed 2011 onwards • We would like people to share: • Improve efficiency – less replication • Improve resources for student • Improve communication OU_March_2011

  5. Range of resources Generic resources open to the World OU_March_2011 5

  6. Guiding principles for EdShare • Eyecatching previews • Capturing attention and retaining it • Engaging the community in making resources • visible • Supporting staff in building confidence to do this • Aligning with institutional strategic change and sharing • Exploring implications for other core services – TEL and VLE OU_March_2011

  7. EdShare and the University? • Institutional resource in educational suite • EPrints family • Storage place which people across the • University (and beyond) can see • Links provided to Creative Commons licenses • Open Educational Resources development – • Projects – HumBox and SWAPBox • Modelling work for educational change OU_March_2011

  8. The question • The impact of EdShare and OERs on teaching and learning at the University of Southampton and beyond: • Impactn. theeffective action of one thing upon another (OED) • (impact of an academic Library) • Poll and Payne, 2006: • Effect or influence of one person, thing, or action on • another • Consequence, visible or practical result or effect of an • event or activity • Importance or preciousness of something, the • perception of actual or potential benefit OU_March_2011 8

  9. Research repository impact • Citations • Hit counts and downloads • Numbers of items in the repository – rate of growth • Community contributing to, and visiting repository – rate of growth • Preservation policies for content OU_March_2011 9

  10. Library impact • Lots of work, but little consensus about significance. Work by SCONUL and others: • Visits – footfall • Enquiry statistics • Metrics for use of e-resources • Number of items on the shelves/in collections • Growth in numbers of items on shelves/in • collections • Number of loans • Funding levels for services and resources • Feedback from users • NSS rating – Q. 16 Library aspect • Metrics for liaison librarian work with staff and • students OU_March_2011 10

  11. EdShare and OER impact • Considerations for teachers (content contributors): • downloads • re-mix/re-use • comments • feedback • reputation Metrics for EdShare downloads OU_March_2011 11

  12. EdShare and OER impact • Considerations for students (content users): • quality/quantity of (available) materials • information/digital literacy • feedback on usefulness • derivatives/re-mixed/originals • ease of discovery OU_March_2011

  13. EdShare and OER impact • Considerations for the institution: • community development • engagement for EdShare and resources • re-mix/re-use • comparison with resources within VLE • rate of growth & renewal • staff profiles enhanced • staff reward and recognition • overall cost • service integration within overall offering OU_March_2011

  14. EdShare and OER impact • University (external): • institutional reputation • institutional comparators • accessibility and visibility – especially Google • visitor locations – international? • work for Curriculum Innovation with new • international network (high profile UoS) • post-HE Academy subject centre • arrangements? “Was already aware about the university’s high quality study skills materials.” OU_March_2011

  15. Methods • Observations • Surveys • Workshops • Direct questions • Solicited/unsolicited testimonials • User panels and champions BUT • Very resource intensive • Difficulty of distinguishing/differentiating EdShare effect from other effects • We anticipate long-term effects (est. 2008) OU_March_2011

  16. EdShare as a set of services • EdShare is more than simply a repository – offers a way to integrate sets of services • EdShare is one aspect of wider, institutional change • Impact as a dimension of cultural change • Sharing as change in academic practice • Southampton Learning Environment - “to develop a virtual environment to embrace the culture, atmosphere and whole experience of University life” OU_March_2011

  17. References • Poll, Roswitha and Payne, Philip (2006). Impact measures for libraries and information services. London: Birkbeck ePrints. Available at: http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/archive/00000373 OU_March_2011

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