Jackie Graham

College Development Network

21 June 2013

An open resource-sharing service for the college sector in Scotland

Re:Sourcewww.resourceshare.ac.uk

• collaborative project led by Scotland’s Colleges (now College Development Network) in partnership with SQA, Education Scotland, JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland.

• developed and hosted by Mimas, the University of Manchester.

• open resource-sharing service for the college sector in Scotland, launched November 2012.

Aims of the service:

• To improve access to open learning and teaching resources within the college sector in Scotland and help the sector achieve greater efficiency in the provision of learning and teaching resources

• To develop and maintain a shared resource-sharing environment where the use, sharing, creation and re-purposing of digital resources is pervasive and effective, providing a national focal point for open content shared by the sector and open materials held elsewhere.

• To promote the benefits of open sharing and shift the culture within the sector to a greater use and sharing of open resources in line with wider OER activity.

Development

• development of existing shared repository service• widening ‘depositor’ access without extra cost• changes in sector: mergers, regionalisation• move to open licensing• scoping and learning from

experience of Jorum, NDLR• timing, opportunity for partnership• delivered new shared service at

less than half annual cost

Consultation

Round table consultation held with college and sector representatives.

Scoping of requirements.

Further consultation process led by Lou McGill, independent consultant

• individual interviews with representatives from Scotland's Colleges, colleges and partner agencies.

• online questionnaire to canvas views and involve further stakeholders in the process

• findings informed report and engagement strategy (October 2012).

Engagement strategy

With long-term aim of embedding open sharing within everyday practice of staff, Engagement Strategy:

• identified challenges, opportunities, benefits

• possible activities and actions, ways to measure success

• identified different stakeholder groups, which will gain different benefits from the service

• recognised that awareness-raising needs long-term staged approaches

• recognised that not everyone will engage in the same way

• recommended use of the experience of previous JISC wide-scale change management programmes

• advocated a big vision but focus on achievable activities and targets.

Engagement action planSpecific recommendations for embedding change in practice:

• national/policy level -o visible commitment to and promotion of benefits of open sharingo build on links with other partners/sectors to share resources

• regional level - o strategy/policy to reflect commitment to open sharingo highlight benefits of sharing within region and wider

• institutional level - o systems and services to support open sharingo staff development to recognise open practice

• subject discipline/professional networks - o support collection development and showcasingo highlight open sharing of both resources and practice

Re:Source - the platform

WordPress front page and blog area, and DSpace repository -

Integration for Moodle VLEs.

As Re:Source sub-site of Jorum, single sign-on also provided by Jorum.

Communities and collections

Communities in DSpace used to organise collections. Users can be assigned to these.

Two main CDN communities:

Open resources - collections of resources which are licensed under Creative Commons or other open licence.

Resources licensed to colleges (materials developed by COLEG)

Simple upload processwith reduced metadata profile. User completes -

dc.title

dc.description

dc.contributor (author, editor, modifier)

dc.publisher

dc.date.created

dc.type (vocab for learning resource type)

dc.subject (keywords)

dc.subject classification (superclass)

dc.subject.other (SCQF level)

dc.rightsholder

dc.rights

dc.rights.uri

Also used:

dc.identifier

dc.identifier.uri

dc.date.accessioned

dc.date.issued

dc.language

dc.format.mimetype

dc.format.extent (size)

Licence chooser to help user select licence.

Further guidance on copyright and licensing.

Re:Source as OER access point

Re:Source provides access to OER resources shared through Jorum. A simple search in Re:Source can include Jorum within scope.

Opportunity to add other repositories (such as OU OpenLearn)

Next steps

Take forward recommendations of action plan

• Policy• Engagement• Build on/develop partnerships• Content• Integration

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