A condensed version of a presentation on the Edmediashare project given at the University of Bristol Learning & Teaching Exhibition.
Notes:
2. With unprecedented amounts of video being uploaded to User-Generated Content sites (60hrs every minute on YouTube alone) it's getting much harder to find useful content for teaching, learning and research.
Recent research shows that finding good quality, usable content is a major problem for educators, and that the "huge mass of vaguely related video"1 that results from a typical search normally involves a large amount of time wasted in sorting the good from the bad.
(1. Burden, K., and Atkinson, S. (2008). Beyond Content: Developing Transferable Learning Designs with Digital Video Archives. University of Hull, UK. [Online] Available at: http://goo.gl/yv1nX [Accessed 5 September 2011].)
3. Although studies have demonstrated the importance of Communities of Practice to support the use of online video there are no examples of successful peer-produced interventions that link educators and learners use of this content with pedagogic practice.
In October 2011 www.edmediashare.org was launched as a proof of concept, knowledge sharing, Open Educational Resource (OER) tool by JISC Digital Media. The aim of the site is essentially to help educators and learners share the online video they use and some information on how they use it.
4. The video comes form anywhere that is willing to share – Vimeo, YouTube, Internet Archive, Google Video… When you share you add comments on how you use the videos you recommend, and show that you like videos recommended by others. You can share and embed video from this site into your VLE, email, wiki, blog, facebook, twitter...
5. The key aspects of EdMediaShare are:
- it collects and presents recommendations of videos that are actually being used to support learning:
- it allows searching by discipline and learning design (based on the Dial-e Framework)
- it includes information on how videos are actually used.
We believe this combination of recommendation and pedagogic information makes finding relevant videos significantly easier than at present. We’ve kept it simple to start with and focus on the three main things we want you to do – Share, Browse and find, and contact us to let us know what you think.
6. A unique aspects of this site is the use of a pedagogical framework (http://dial-e.net/ & http://goo.gl/6Ygcm)
8. The most important thing we want this site to do is to share the content educators and learners find useful. This informal peer review will make this a very useful resource.
10. Many of the videos recommended to edmediashare have been made with an explicit pedagogical aim, but the site also features videos that have no such aim - but which have demonstrated their effectiveness in supporting learning.
14. We want to develop the community and encourage more sharing.
We’re very keen to hear what you want (www.surveymo
12. edmediashare.org
Feedback
Edmediashare is the best way
I've come across to share
educational media!
Dr Simon Lancaster, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
University of East Anglia, UK
In no small measure this site
addresses the tidal wave of
content now being posted online…
Institute of Education Library Newsletter
University of London, UK
www.edmediashare.org
13. edmediashare.org
Feedback
What a great opportunity
Fantastic! Really pleased to see to collaborate and produce
that this isn't simply another place a really useful resource!
to upload video (plenty of spaces …more people need
to do that already), but instead to know about it!
Ros Smith, eLearning Consultant, UK
to embed media already published
elsewhere.
Chris Grant, Head of IT Services, Alton College, UK
www.edmediashare.org
14. edmediashare.org
Where next?
• Develop community
• Encourage sharing
• Improve functionality
• What do you want?
www.edmediashare.org
15. edmediashare.org
Tell us what you think
Tim O’Riordan
@edmediashare
www.surveymonkey.com/s/588VX7S
www.edmediashare.org
Editor's Notes
With unprecedented amounts of video being uploaded to User-Generated Content sites (60hrs every minute on YouTube alone1) it's getting much harder to find useful content for teaching, learning and research.Recent research shows that finding good quality, usable content is a major problem for educators2, 3, and that the "huge mass of vaguely related video"4 that results from a typical search normally involves a large amount of time wasted in sorting the good from the bad. Image Credit: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/05/thanks-youtube-community-for-two-big.html - citation: YouTube press http://www.youtube.com/t/press_statistics
Although studies have demonstrated the importance of Communities of Practice to support the use of online video there are no examples of successful peer-produced interventions that link educators and learners use of this content with pedagogic practice.In October 2011 www.edmediashare.org was launched as a proof of concept, knowledge sharing, Open Educational Resource (OER) tool by JISC Digital Media. The aim of the site is essentially to help people to share the online video they use and some information on how they use it.
The video comes form anywhere that is willing to share – Vimeo, YouTube, Internet Archive, Google Video… When you share you add comments on how you use the videos you recommend, and show that you like videos recommended by others. You can share and embed video from this site into your VLE, email, wiki, blog, facebook page, twitter – in fact pretty well anywhere on the web.Image Credit: http://thenounproject.com, http://static.fsf.org/nosvn/share-icon-128x128.png
The key aspects of EdMediaShare are: it collects and presents recommendations of videos that are actually being used by educators to support learning, it allows searching by discipline and learning design (based on the Dial-e Framework5), and it includes information on how videos are actually used.We believe this combination of recommendation and pedagogic information makes finding relevant videos significantly easier than at present. We’ve kept it simple to start with and focus on the three main things we want you to do – Share, Browse and find, and contact us to let us know what you think.
One of the unique aspects of this site is the use of a pedagogical framework. We’re using the Dial-e framework that was developed by Kevin Burden and Simon Atkinson at the University of Hull specifically to encourage consideration of the use of digital artifacts in teaching and learning. On edmediashare we have a number of videos - .
…that explain the concepts behind the frameworkhttp://www.edmediashare.org/media/dial-e-learning-designs-in-67-seconds
The most important thing we want this site to do is to share the content you and other educators and learners find useful. It’s this informal peer review that will make this resource invaluable. The method we have adopted at this stage is to use a google document to manage sharing by users. So click on Share…
We’re after a small amount of information about you.
Then some information about the video – the url and how you are using the content – including an indication on the type of learning design you are using it within. One interesting thing that has happened since we started this is that educators are sharing their youtube playlists and channels as well as individual videos.Many of the videos recommended to edmediashare have been made with an explicit pedagogical aim, but the site also features videos that have no such aim - but which have demonstrated their effectiveness in supporting learning. We are very keen for you to share the video you use to support your teaching, learning and research, whether it is explicitly educational or not.
When you share the form goes to the edmediashare team – we curate it – i.e. check that it’s ok to share and aim to have it online within 12 hours.
We’ve had some very positive feedback. This is some from the first few days.Image Credit: http://newsamnews.ioe.ac.uk/?p=1984
Some positive comments from the JISC eLearning Conference – activity week feedback.
We started edmediashare as a proof of concept site – I think we’re very close to proving it. We want to develop the community and encourage more sharing – I think this will only be achieved through improving the functionality. I would want to see who is sharing what a lot more clearly. I would want to search by academic discipline and learning design together – not separately. So, there’s a lot I would want to see – but we’re very keen to hear what you want. (survey monkey) We’re also looking for funds to move the site on to the next stage of development.
We want to develop the community and encourage more sharing – I think this will only be achieved through improving the functionality. IWe’re very keen to hear what you want (survey monkey).
