Presentation from the 2014 EDINA Projects Day: "Trading Consequences and Planning Project Communications/Launches", delivered by Nicola Osborne on the EDINA premises 15 May 2014.
Bringing together digital practices, learning resources and librariesJisc
If your college or university is looking to create a more digitally-enabled organisation, your library or learning resources service should be a key asset.
If you work in a library or learning resources service, you’ll know that your digital capability – whether it’s delivering online content, engaging users or facilitating digital literacy - is essential for helping students and academics succeed. But how can we maximize the potential of the library or learning resources service in digital practice? We will look at questions such as:
What technologies for learning and teaching do libraries need to have their eye on?
How might the shape and role of the library/learning resources service evolve amid rapid digital change?
How can staff collaborate across different roles in the digitally-enabled organisation?
Presentation from the 2014 EDINA Projects Day: "Trading Consequences and Planning Project Communications/Launches", delivered by Nicola Osborne on the EDINA premises 15 May 2014.
Bringing together digital practices, learning resources and librariesJisc
If your college or university is looking to create a more digitally-enabled organisation, your library or learning resources service should be a key asset.
If you work in a library or learning resources service, you’ll know that your digital capability – whether it’s delivering online content, engaging users or facilitating digital literacy - is essential for helping students and academics succeed. But how can we maximize the potential of the library or learning resources service in digital practice? We will look at questions such as:
What technologies for learning and teaching do libraries need to have their eye on?
How might the shape and role of the library/learning resources service evolve amid rapid digital change?
How can staff collaborate across different roles in the digitally-enabled organisation?
How can universities scale up learning analytics beyond small-scale pilots to seriously use data to improve student learning? This interactive workshop was designed to help you think this through for your institution.
Universities are hard to change. Having good data and analytics is a good start, but is only one part of success. This session will provide tools and frameworks to help you analyse what else is needed, building on experiences of successful large-scale learning analytics activity at the Open University and the University of Technology, Sydney, and from the pan-European Learning Analytics Community Exchange project.
Slides for a talk at Bett, London, 20 January 2016.
LAEP Visions of the Future of Learning AnalyticsDoug Clow
Presentation on the LACE project's Visions of the Future of Learning Analytics work from the LAEP project's expert workshop in Amsterdam, 15-16 March 2016.
LinkedUp are sponsors of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. 19th – 23rd October 2014 at Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy.
These slides are for the exhibition stand.
Presentation by Sally Reynolds, ATiT, at the 2019 European Distance Learning Week's first-day webinar on "Distance Education: Challenges on the European and the Global Level" - 11 November 2019
Recording of the discussion is available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/pymtl303yih1/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7AzzgjReps
This presentation was provided by Alex Viggio of the University of Colorado-Boulder during the joint NISO-ICSTI webinar, Enabling Innovation in Researcher Workflow and Scholarly Communication, held on October 26, 2016.
Slides for the plenary feedback session at #cetis14 the Cetis Conference; Building the Digital Institution held at The University of Bolton on the 17th and 18th June 2014.
SGCI Science Gateways: Ushering in a New Era of Sustainability Sandra Gesing
The computational landscape has never so fast evolved like in the last decade. Computational scientific methods tackle an increasing breadth and diversity of topics – analyzing data on a large scale and accessing high-performance computing infrastructures, cutting-edge hardware and instruments. Novel technologies such as next-gen sequencing or the Square Kilometre Array telescope, the world largest radio telescope, have evolved, which allow creating data in exascale dimension. While the availability of this data salvage to find answers for research questions, which would not have been feasible before, the amount of data creates new challenges, which obviously need novel computational solutions. Such novel solutions require integrative approaches for multidisciplinary teams across geographical boundaries, which improve usability of scientific methods tailored to the target user communities and aim at achieving reproducibility of science. The goal of science gateways, also called virtual research environments or virtual laboratories, are following exactly this goal to provide an easy-to-use end-to-end solution hiding the complex underlying infrastructure. They support researchers with intuitive user interfaces to focus on their research question instead of becoming acquainted with technological details.
Science gateways are often developed by research teams, who are not necessarily in the computer science domain and science projects depend on academic funding. Centralized research programmer teams, who can provide broad experience and contribute to sustainability of solutions, are rather rare at universities and there is still a lack of incentives for interested developers to stay in academia. One of the future challenges for science gateways and thus for computational scientific methods will be to increase the sustainability and getting less dependent on successful proposals. The US National Science Foundation has recognized the importance of this topic for research and has funded the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) to support not only teams in developing science gateways but also to help communities to find a way to sustain their favorite science gateway for conducting their research. This talk will go into detail for current challenges, the landscape around science gateways, the services of SGCI and approaches to reach sustainability.
Sharing information literacy teaching materials openly: Experiences of the Co...ALISS
Presentation given by Nancy Graham Subject Advisor (Medicine), Library Services, Academic Services, University of Birmingham and Dr Jane Secker, Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor, Centre for Learning Technology, Information Management and Technology, London School of Economics and Political Science at the ALISS 2013 summer conference
Introduction to the Learning Analytics Data Sharing Workshop at EC-TEL 2014LACE Project
Slides presented by Adam Cooper to introduce the Learning Analytics Data Sharing Workshop held on the 16th September 2014 at EC-TEL Conference in Graz, Austria.
SGCI Science Gateways: Software sustainability via on-campus teams - Webinar ...Sandra Gesing
Achieve software sustainability via on-campus teams. SGCI can support you with a roadmap to use free resources on campus and/or build your own on-campus team
LACE: Learning Analytics Community Exchange (for LASI 2014)Doug Clow
Presentation about the LACE project (Learning Analytics Community Exchange) at LASI2014, the Learning Analytics Summer Institute held at Harvard, on 30 June 2014.
This presentation was provided by Sara Gonzalez of the University of Florida during a NISO webinar on the topic of makerspaces, held on December 14, 2016.
The talk gives an overview on current trends for developing science gateways also called virtual labs or virtual research environments. It presents the services of the US Science Gateways Community Institute and international collaborations in the context of science gateways.
Leveraging a Library CMS and Social Media to promote #openaccess (OA) to inst...Nick Sheppard
The confluence of various technologies and Open Access (OA) initiatives make it easy to share research outputs via social media and assess the reach and impact of dissemination. The Library at Leeds Beckett utilises LibGuides as our CMS and supports the institutional research management infrastructure comprising Symplectic Elements and EPrints, and we have developed a dedicated series of LibGuides around selected themes comprising a range of relevant information and including institutional research outputs. For World Diabetes Day, for example, we curated a collection of research outputs and utilised the Elements API to display a date ordered list of citations including, where available, links to author versions, self-archived and openly accessible in EPrints alongside an embedded Twitter feed from @WDD, the Official Twitter account of the campaign from the International Diabetes Federation. The page was disseminated via Twitter from accounts operated by the Library, @BeckettLibrary and @BeckettResearch, including targeted tweets to @WDD and individual academics. With over 4,500 and 1,500 followers respectively these accounts are well subscribed and received several "retweets". The guide, whilst highlighting and strengthening the role of the library as a tool for researchers, was also an advocacy tool to engage academics in OA. This paper will explore the context and technology of this initiative and present data from Twitter analytics and so called "altmetrics" as a means of visualising how research is shared and disseminated online and which are potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material, especially in conjunction with OA.
Significant developments in OA, driven by HEFCE’s “Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework” state that authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts must be deposited in a repository on acceptance for publication i.e. “green” OA. In many ways the policy is a response to the Finch report and RCUK policy which emphasise “gold” whereby a journal provides immediate OA to articles on the publisher’s website and may levy a fee as an alternative to library subscription.
There is consensus that established models of scholarly communication, especially related to copyright, inhibit scientific progress, and RCUK emphasise that gold OA must be CC-BY. In response, traditional publishers have moved towards a “hybrid” model whereby they facilitate green by permitting “self-archiving” – often subject to embargo – but increasingly promote gold whereby authors pay a fee to publish CC-BY (average fee across the sector ≈ £1800 per article), in stark contrast to the use of open licences in OE more generally and reflecting commercial interests with evidence that publishers benefit in the form of “double dipping”, effectively paid twice for the same content via library subscription and OA fees (Pinfield et al 2014).
To comply with HEFCE, there is considerable activity across the sector to develop robust infrastructure – repositories, CRIS, RIOXX, Jisc’s “Publication Router”, “Open Mirror”, Monitor project and CORE aggregator. Individual HEIs are also iterating to develop infrastructure and appropriate internal policies; at Leeds Beckett, like many Universities, we are looking into the management of APCs to ensure double-dipping does not occur which requires collaboration between library, research office and faculty. In addition, the more specialised requirements of a HEFCE compliant repository means we are reviewing our infrastructure and considering a Jorum “Window” to manage OER rather than the current “blended” repository comprising OA research and OER.
HEFCE policy serves to emphasise OA over OE and there are questions of academic support structure; academic librarians typically specialise in research support or teaching and learning. Increasingly, librarians advocate for OA/OE, particularly using the HEFCE mandate as a tool to encourage OA publishing routes and it was thought OE/OA would solve the problem of the “serial crisis”, this is now not thought to be the case (Harris, 2012).
OA and OE have much to share and remain convergent in many ways. This paper will describe the developing OA landscape and invite participants to explore synergies and dissonance with OE in the contexts of infrastructure, policy and licensing; we will argue that to avoid continued commercial exploitation, the fostering of partnerships across the academy is crucial to mainstreaming Open Education.
Pinfield, S., Salter, J. and Bath, P.A. (2015) The ‘total cost of publication’ in a hyb
Extending and measuring the reach and impact of research output: #openaccess,...Nick Sheppard
Research can be easily disseminated online amongst communities of researchers and interested lay people, via social media for example, and it is clearly beneficial if that research is freely accessible on the open web rather than restricted by subscription access. Evidence suggests that OA can increase traditional citations and, increasingly, developments in alternative or “altmetrics” are enabling online social activity around research to be recorded and measured. This session will explore initiatives in this are at Leeds Beckett in the context of the new HEFCE requirements for OA that come into effect in 2016.
How can universities scale up learning analytics beyond small-scale pilots to seriously use data to improve student learning? This interactive workshop was designed to help you think this through for your institution.
Universities are hard to change. Having good data and analytics is a good start, but is only one part of success. This session will provide tools and frameworks to help you analyse what else is needed, building on experiences of successful large-scale learning analytics activity at the Open University and the University of Technology, Sydney, and from the pan-European Learning Analytics Community Exchange project.
Slides for a talk at Bett, London, 20 January 2016.
LAEP Visions of the Future of Learning AnalyticsDoug Clow
Presentation on the LACE project's Visions of the Future of Learning Analytics work from the LAEP project's expert workshop in Amsterdam, 15-16 March 2016.
LinkedUp are sponsors of the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. 19th – 23rd October 2014 at Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy.
These slides are for the exhibition stand.
Presentation by Sally Reynolds, ATiT, at the 2019 European Distance Learning Week's first-day webinar on "Distance Education: Challenges on the European and the Global Level" - 11 November 2019
Recording of the discussion is available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/pymtl303yih1/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7AzzgjReps
This presentation was provided by Alex Viggio of the University of Colorado-Boulder during the joint NISO-ICSTI webinar, Enabling Innovation in Researcher Workflow and Scholarly Communication, held on October 26, 2016.
Slides for the plenary feedback session at #cetis14 the Cetis Conference; Building the Digital Institution held at The University of Bolton on the 17th and 18th June 2014.
SGCI Science Gateways: Ushering in a New Era of Sustainability Sandra Gesing
The computational landscape has never so fast evolved like in the last decade. Computational scientific methods tackle an increasing breadth and diversity of topics – analyzing data on a large scale and accessing high-performance computing infrastructures, cutting-edge hardware and instruments. Novel technologies such as next-gen sequencing or the Square Kilometre Array telescope, the world largest radio telescope, have evolved, which allow creating data in exascale dimension. While the availability of this data salvage to find answers for research questions, which would not have been feasible before, the amount of data creates new challenges, which obviously need novel computational solutions. Such novel solutions require integrative approaches for multidisciplinary teams across geographical boundaries, which improve usability of scientific methods tailored to the target user communities and aim at achieving reproducibility of science. The goal of science gateways, also called virtual research environments or virtual laboratories, are following exactly this goal to provide an easy-to-use end-to-end solution hiding the complex underlying infrastructure. They support researchers with intuitive user interfaces to focus on their research question instead of becoming acquainted with technological details.
Science gateways are often developed by research teams, who are not necessarily in the computer science domain and science projects depend on academic funding. Centralized research programmer teams, who can provide broad experience and contribute to sustainability of solutions, are rather rare at universities and there is still a lack of incentives for interested developers to stay in academia. One of the future challenges for science gateways and thus for computational scientific methods will be to increase the sustainability and getting less dependent on successful proposals. The US National Science Foundation has recognized the importance of this topic for research and has funded the Science Gateways Community Institute (SGCI) to support not only teams in developing science gateways but also to help communities to find a way to sustain their favorite science gateway for conducting their research. This talk will go into detail for current challenges, the landscape around science gateways, the services of SGCI and approaches to reach sustainability.
Sharing information literacy teaching materials openly: Experiences of the Co...ALISS
Presentation given by Nancy Graham Subject Advisor (Medicine), Library Services, Academic Services, University of Birmingham and Dr Jane Secker, Copyright and Digital Literacy Advisor, Centre for Learning Technology, Information Management and Technology, London School of Economics and Political Science at the ALISS 2013 summer conference
Introduction to the Learning Analytics Data Sharing Workshop at EC-TEL 2014LACE Project
Slides presented by Adam Cooper to introduce the Learning Analytics Data Sharing Workshop held on the 16th September 2014 at EC-TEL Conference in Graz, Austria.
SGCI Science Gateways: Software sustainability via on-campus teams - Webinar ...Sandra Gesing
Achieve software sustainability via on-campus teams. SGCI can support you with a roadmap to use free resources on campus and/or build your own on-campus team
LACE: Learning Analytics Community Exchange (for LASI 2014)Doug Clow
Presentation about the LACE project (Learning Analytics Community Exchange) at LASI2014, the Learning Analytics Summer Institute held at Harvard, on 30 June 2014.
This presentation was provided by Sara Gonzalez of the University of Florida during a NISO webinar on the topic of makerspaces, held on December 14, 2016.
The talk gives an overview on current trends for developing science gateways also called virtual labs or virtual research environments. It presents the services of the US Science Gateways Community Institute and international collaborations in the context of science gateways.
Leveraging a Library CMS and Social Media to promote #openaccess (OA) to inst...Nick Sheppard
The confluence of various technologies and Open Access (OA) initiatives make it easy to share research outputs via social media and assess the reach and impact of dissemination. The Library at Leeds Beckett utilises LibGuides as our CMS and supports the institutional research management infrastructure comprising Symplectic Elements and EPrints, and we have developed a dedicated series of LibGuides around selected themes comprising a range of relevant information and including institutional research outputs. For World Diabetes Day, for example, we curated a collection of research outputs and utilised the Elements API to display a date ordered list of citations including, where available, links to author versions, self-archived and openly accessible in EPrints alongside an embedded Twitter feed from @WDD, the Official Twitter account of the campaign from the International Diabetes Federation. The page was disseminated via Twitter from accounts operated by the Library, @BeckettLibrary and @BeckettResearch, including targeted tweets to @WDD and individual academics. With over 4,500 and 1,500 followers respectively these accounts are well subscribed and received several "retweets". The guide, whilst highlighting and strengthening the role of the library as a tool for researchers, was also an advocacy tool to engage academics in OA. This paper will explore the context and technology of this initiative and present data from Twitter analytics and so called "altmetrics" as a means of visualising how research is shared and disseminated online and which are potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material, especially in conjunction with OA.
Significant developments in OA, driven by HEFCE’s “Policy for open access in the post-2014 Research Excellence Framework” state that authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts must be deposited in a repository on acceptance for publication i.e. “green” OA. In many ways the policy is a response to the Finch report and RCUK policy which emphasise “gold” whereby a journal provides immediate OA to articles on the publisher’s website and may levy a fee as an alternative to library subscription.
There is consensus that established models of scholarly communication, especially related to copyright, inhibit scientific progress, and RCUK emphasise that gold OA must be CC-BY. In response, traditional publishers have moved towards a “hybrid” model whereby they facilitate green by permitting “self-archiving” – often subject to embargo – but increasingly promote gold whereby authors pay a fee to publish CC-BY (average fee across the sector ≈ £1800 per article), in stark contrast to the use of open licences in OE more generally and reflecting commercial interests with evidence that publishers benefit in the form of “double dipping”, effectively paid twice for the same content via library subscription and OA fees (Pinfield et al 2014).
To comply with HEFCE, there is considerable activity across the sector to develop robust infrastructure – repositories, CRIS, RIOXX, Jisc’s “Publication Router”, “Open Mirror”, Monitor project and CORE aggregator. Individual HEIs are also iterating to develop infrastructure and appropriate internal policies; at Leeds Beckett, like many Universities, we are looking into the management of APCs to ensure double-dipping does not occur which requires collaboration between library, research office and faculty. In addition, the more specialised requirements of a HEFCE compliant repository means we are reviewing our infrastructure and considering a Jorum “Window” to manage OER rather than the current “blended” repository comprising OA research and OER.
HEFCE policy serves to emphasise OA over OE and there are questions of academic support structure; academic librarians typically specialise in research support or teaching and learning. Increasingly, librarians advocate for OA/OE, particularly using the HEFCE mandate as a tool to encourage OA publishing routes and it was thought OE/OA would solve the problem of the “serial crisis”, this is now not thought to be the case (Harris, 2012).
OA and OE have much to share and remain convergent in many ways. This paper will describe the developing OA landscape and invite participants to explore synergies and dissonance with OE in the contexts of infrastructure, policy and licensing; we will argue that to avoid continued commercial exploitation, the fostering of partnerships across the academy is crucial to mainstreaming Open Education.
Pinfield, S., Salter, J. and Bath, P.A. (2015) The ‘total cost of publication’ in a hyb
Extending and measuring the reach and impact of research output: #openaccess,...Nick Sheppard
Research can be easily disseminated online amongst communities of researchers and interested lay people, via social media for example, and it is clearly beneficial if that research is freely accessible on the open web rather than restricted by subscription access. Evidence suggests that OA can increase traditional citations and, increasingly, developments in alternative or “altmetrics” are enabling online social activity around research to be recorded and measured. This session will explore initiatives in this are at Leeds Beckett in the context of the new HEFCE requirements for OA that come into effect in 2016.
Philosophical Transactions to the Finch report: the events that have defined ...Nick Sheppard
Throughout history the creation and dissemination of knowledge has been influenced by innumerable ‘events’, cultural, technological and political in nature; from the invention of Cuneiform to the rise and fall of Classical civilizations and cultural incubation by the Catholic Church through the European Dark Ages to the Enlightenment. The invention of the printing press is obviously pivotal and in 1665 Henry Oldenburg inaugurated the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (Phil Trans), utilising print technology to establish the principles of scientific priority and peer review that have defined scientific discourse ever since.
In the 20th Century scholarly publishing became exploited by commercial academic publishers and, as journal prices began to outstrip inflation, ultimately resulted in the “serials crisis” of the 1970s. These unsustainable price rises coincided with emergence of the internet and in 1990 Stevan Harnad introduced Psycoloquy, the first peer-reviewed online scientific journal which paved the way for free academic publishing on the web after 1993. In spite of this, and with the World Wide Web over 2 decades old, the traditional subscription model persists, dominated by multinational corporations that generate huge profits and restrict access to scholarly material.
The Open Access movement is a worldwide effort to make scholarly work available online to everyone regardless of their ability to pay for access and in 2011 David Willetts set up a Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Dame Janet Finch and publishing the so called “Finch report” in 2012. The HEFCE policy on OA that comes into effect in 2016 perhaps represents the most recent cultural and political event in this space.
This paper will explore the events that continue to influence academic dissemination and examine how Universities and academics themselves, particularly early career researchers, can utilise modern technology to be part of their own open knowledge event.
Slides from a webinar for the Royal Society of Chemistry on 24th February 2016.
See the URI below to access the full report from the RSC survey "The role of libraries in open access publishing":
http://www.rsc.org/campaigns/m/lc/lc16013/open-access/
We often hear that we are in a transitional phase of open access publishing, but it is not always clear how we will reach a fully open access environment, what that will look like and what it means for scholarly research. This webinar will draw insights from a librarian survey we ran in 2015, discussing areas where librarians feel a lack of confidence and presenting technical and policy developments.
Register to gain a deeper understanding of:
• The historical and political context of scholarly publishing
• Funder and other policy requirements for Open Access (e.g. HEFCE and RCUK in the UK, Horizon2020 in Europe and NIH is the USA)
• Developing models of OA including “Gold”, “Green” and “hybrid”
• Jisc support services for OA
• Social media and OA – e.g. “Altmetrics” (alternative metrics) as potential indicators of impact beyond the traditional readership of scholarly material
Spreading the ORCID Word: ORCID Communications Webinar (2016.12)ORCID, Inc
This webinar, delivered 13 December 2016, discusses effective practices in encouraging adoption and use of ORCID iDs by researchers in your community.
Topics include:
- Key messages about ORCID (by audience, where applicable)
- Successful techniques for delivering those messages
- Useful resources from ORCID and the ORCID Community
Capturing Conversations, Context and Curricula: The JLeRN Experiment and the ...Sarah Currier
These slides accompany the paper "Capturing Conversations, Context and Curricula: The JLeRN Experiment and the Learning Registry" published by the Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education conference, organised by OCWC and SCORE (Support Centre for Open Resources in Education).
These slides accompany the paper "Capturing Conversations, Context and Curricula: The JLeRN Experiment and the Learning Registry" published by the Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education conference, organised by OCWC and SCORE (Support Centre for Open Resources in Education).
Open Source for Higher Conventional and Open Education in IndiaRamesh C. Sharma
In this presentation we discussed about what are open source softwares and how higher, conventional and open education system in India is making use of open source tools.
MOVING presentation at the Course in Open Education Design, July 2018, SloveniaMOVING Project
The aim of the course was to equip the participants with basic knowledge, practical advice and hands-on experience to prepare them for their own design of Open Educational Resources (OER).
A presentation by Paul Maharg from April 2010 UKCLE York OER event. The presentation covers OERs and why they're important, case studies, examples and the UKCLE's OER platform: Simshare.
Open access repositories: Sharing research to the global communityILRI
Presented by Peter Ballantyne at the ICRISAT Capacity Development Program on Appropriate Technologies and Innovative Approaches for Agriculture Knowledge Sharing, Hyderabad, 1-4 September 2014
Qatar University Technology Enabled Learning and OpennessPaul_Stacey
Presentation given to Qatar University Technology Enabled Learning Implementation Committee and Curriculum Stakeholders (Programs Coordinators, Curriculum Committee Members, etc.). Doha October 29, 2014.
OER (Open Educational Resources) – Resurse Educaționale Deschise și MOOC (Ma...Diana Andone
OER (Open Educational Resources) – Resurse Educaționale Deschise și MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses)
Presentation during Open Education Week 2014 in Timisoara, Romania, 13 March 2014
#OpenEducationWk
How Open Textbooks, Resources & MOOC's are Changing EducationPaul_Stacey
Over the past ten years Creative Commons has enabled the creation of a global education commons by providing legal and technical infrastructure for maximizing digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.This presentation will explore the growth of the global education commons, its current state, and future directions. Particular attention will be given to OER, Open Textbooks and MOOC's.
Reflections on Open Educational Practice Nick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Antonio Martínez-Arboleda on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Antonio Martínez-Arboleda is Academic Lead for Open Educational Practice and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Digital Education of the University of Leeds. Antonio has been a champion and practitioner of open education since 2009, initially as part of the Humbox team and co-researcher of the JISC funded project OpenLIVES on Digitised Life Stories. His scholarship focuses on the areas of OER (Open Educational Resources) and Critical Digital Pedagogies.
Sustainable support for OER at the University of EdinburghNick Sheppard
Slides from a presentation by Lorna Campbell on 18 January 2022: A global challenge: digital and open education for inclusive societies
Lorna is a learning technology service manager at the University of Edinburgh’s Open Educational Resources (OER) Service. She is also a Trustee of Wikimedia UK and the Association for Learning Technology and has a longstanding personal commitment to supporting open knowledge and education. Her blog, Open World (http://lornamcampbell.org), features personal reflections on all aspects of open education, and she is an active member of the #femedtech network. You can find Lorna on twitter at @lornamcampbell.
Contributing to the global commons: Repositories and WikimediaNick Sheppard
There is huge potential for universities and their libraries to leverage Wikimedia in order to expose research outputs and collections. Wikimedia comprises sixteen projects in total, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. At the University of Leeds, the Research Data Management Service have successfully run a project that focuses on linking research data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via a series of ‘editathons’, in order to increase the visibility of research data and enable reuse on Wikipedia and elsewhere. The project - "Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons" - was the winning submission to a competition launched in May 2018 and sponsored by SPARC Europe, Jisc and the University of Cambridge, called the "Data Management Engagement Award", which aimed to address cultural challenges involved in promoting effective research data practices.
The project has served as a springboard to further explore Wikimedia strategically, both at the University of Leeds and across the White Rose Consortium. For example we are collaborating on a new project looking at Wikipedia citations of research from York, Sheffield and Leeds, and the proportion of these that are open access. The long term goal might be to establish a "Wikimedian in Residence" across the consortium. In this talk, we will present the project's outputs - including a toolkit that will enable other institutions to apply the same methodology. In addition we will explore the potential of Wikidata to link up repositories and other data silos in a manner that enables reuse and increases impact.
Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia CommonsNick Sheppard
Slides for Internet Librarian International 2018 about the Data Management Engagement Award, a first-ever competition launched to elicit new and imaginative ideas for engaging researchers in the practices of good Research Data Management (RDM) - http://www.rdmengagementaward.org/
Using social media and quantitative metrics to engage the research communityNick Sheppard
The modern university Library comprises repositories, publishing platforms and social media and is central to the dissemination mission of the University. Recent progress towards ‘Open Access’ has enabled research to be more effectively disseminated via the internet and aggregated into an Institutional Repository, empowering institutions to disseminate their own research and monitor associated metrics. A repository is also an ideal home for grey literature and research data, where IPR is more likely to be retained by universities which are increasingly minting DOIs for this type of content, ensuring persistence and enabling (alternative) metrics. This case study will present a Library led social media initiative at the University of Leeds examining local challenges and presenting usage data from Altmetric.com, Twitter Analytics and IRUS-UK.
The University of Leeds is a research intensive Russell Group University with a well-developed ecosystem of research oriented Twitter accounts. These include both University branded accounts overseen by schools, faculties or research groups as well as a huge number of ‘personal’ accounts operated by individual staff or students. In 2012 an account focussed on research data was set up in the Library as part of the Roadmap project but was used only sporadically before being rebranded in 2017 and used more actively to engage with the research community, to promote both OA research papers and datasets.
Themes and challenges include quantitative metrics, institutional and departmental oversight of social media, operational implications and sustainability.
Has anyone seen my data? Incentivising #opendata sharing with altmetricsNick Sheppard
As an important component of the scholarly record, research data, software and code are increasingly managed as research outputs in their own right, though are not typically subject to peer review.
In line with the broader ‘open research’ movement there is a growing impetus for datasets, software and code to be curated in repositories, openly available wherever possible subject to relevant legal and ethical constraints.
Data repositories such as Figshare, Dryad and Zenodo routinely allocate DOIs for deposited data while many universities in the UK also allocate and mint DOIs in their nascent institutionally based data repositories through Datacite which means they will be automatically tracked by altmetric.com in the same way as journal articles.
While the repository infrastructure continues to develop and there are pockets of best practice, data sharing and reuse is not yet fully established across UK HE. Reward mechanisms are immature and data citation, for example, is limited and not easy to track. Clarivate Analytics’ Data Citation Index coverage of UK based repositories is still relatively low and, as a subscription based product, is not widely accessible. COUNTER compliant downloads can be derived from IRUSdata-UK (beta) which currently tracks 27 UK based institutional data repositories.
Altmetrics therefore offers a low barrier method to track engagement with datasets and, in lieu of a more formal process, might be regarded as a type of informal peer review. We have undertaken a preliminary analysis of repositories that participate in IRUSdata-UK (beta) using it as a source of DOIs to run against the altmetric.com API to discover to what extent research data, software and code is being shared.
This talk will present these preliminary results and explore how and why datasets are being shared across the various platforms tracked by altmetric.com and potential barriers. It will consider how data repository managers can encourage and facilitate data sharing through social media networks, blogs and “data journalism” and will draw on the Research Data Management (RDM) Engagement Award at the University of Leeds which is exploring linking RDM with the Open Science movement via the Wikimedia suite of tools. What does the altmetric data currently tell us about how research data is being linked to this global platform
Advocating Open Access: Before, during and after HEFCENick Sheppard
Since “self-archiving” of research outputs was first mooted in the mid-1990s, initiatives towards “green” Open Access (OA) across the sector have met with generally limited success and coverage in institutional and subject repositories is generally cited at around 20-30%. However, since the Finch report in 2012 combined with OA policies from RCUK, also in 2012, and HEFCE the following year, there is little doubt that a tipping point of awareness has been reached. This session will aim to contextualise the HEFCE policy in the broader history of Open Access and present a case study of a non-research intensive University and how the repository manager has sought to liaise with academic support services in order to facilitate knowledge exchange across the University. - See more at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/events/open-access-advocacy#sthash.9YqReHt0.dpuf
Open Metrics for Open Repositories at OR2012Nick Sheppard
Slides for a paper on "Open Metrics for Open Repositories" based on the paper available from http://opus.bath.ac.uk/30226/ and presented by Nick Sheppard at the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) held in Edinburgh from 9-13th July 2012.
Towards a local, regional and national infrastructure for sharing medical tea...Nick Sheppard
Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Learn more about the developing institutional and national OER infrastructures supported by JISC
- Discuss how these can be streamlined across the sector and improved/adapted to more fully support subject specific requirements (e.g. health)
Abstract:
The ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep) is examining the requirements of a repository infrastructure in local, regional and national contexts to more effectively facilitate sharing and reuse of appropriately licensed medical teaching, learning and assessment material.
Three institutions in the ALPS consortium - the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and York St John University - all use different commercial platforms for their teaching and learning repositories. In addition there is the national HE/FE repository Jorum, and the NHS National eLearning Repository (NeLR),
Informed by a user-group of institutional stakeholders, the goal of ACErep is to develop a clearly branded web-site from where staff at the respective institutions can:
deposit resources into their own institutional repository
cross-search the repositories from a single interface
In addition, we have developed ties with the JISC funded PORSCHE project at Newcastle University which aims to provide seamless access to academic and clinical learning resources for healthcare students primarily from the respective collections in Jorum and the NeLR.
The project utilises well-established repository technologies and has adapted an Open Source client to differentially deposit into a user’s institutional repository and liaised with Jorum to harvest metadata from multiple repositories. ACErep and PORSCHE are also working with Jorum on their development of an Open API (Application Programming Interface) upon which we can build a bespoke search portal. This work, in turn, builds on a prototype developed in collaboration with the Xpert repository at Nottingham University.
This approach will have the benefit of digital assets being preserved in one location (an institutional repository) while providing multiple points of access as well as allowing the ALPS branded web-site and the institutional repositories to “piggyback” on Jorum’s Google pagerank thereby improving discoverability.
The presentation will comprise a summary of the ACErep project to date; the emphasis will not be technical though technical implications and requirements will be discussed.
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Who needs a repository when you’ve got Google? Information and Digital Literacy in the new Open landscape
1. Who needs a repository
when you’ve got Google?
Information and Digital Literacy in the
new Open landscape
Nick Sheppard
24th June 2015
2. A confession…
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Confessional_bourges.jpg (Public domain)
Image source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7325961/Google-good-or-evil.html
(Reuse rights unknown)
(Can I use this image??)
3.
4. Repository Developer
• Began working at Leeds Metropolitan University
in 2007
• Jisc Repositories Start-up and Enhancement
Projects
• “Blended” repository of OA research and OER
• Technical Officer UKCoRR - http://ukcorr.org/
• Jisc UKOER programme (2009-2012)
• Jorum - http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
– Steering group member
5. Coming up…
• A new Open landscape
• Defining information & digital literacy
• What is an OER?
• An information literacy OER (case study)
– Xerte Online Toolkits (XOT)
– Developing an OER based on the SCONUL 7
Pillars of information literacy
• Copyright and licensing for reuse
– Creative Commons
– Tools to discover CC content
• Open Access in 2015
6. A new Open landscape
• Open Access to research
• Finch and HEFCE
• Role of (institutional) repositories
• Research Data Management
• Learning Objects and OER
• Licensing
• Role of academic libraries
– “outside in vs inside out” (Lorcan Dempsey)
– Managing and disseminating institutional assets
• New paradigms of scholarly communication
– PLOS
– Open Library of the Humanities
– Institutional publishing
7. Information & Digital Literacy:
towards a definition
• The Seven Pillars of Information
Skills model (1999)
• Revised 2011
• Different terminologies and concepts
• Generic “core” model for HE
• Series of “lenses”, representing
different groups of learners
Information Literacy is an umbrella term which encompasses
concepts such as digital, visual and media literacies, academic
literacy, information handling, information skills, data curation and
data management (SCONUL Working Group on Information
Literacy 2011)
8. What is an OER?
• Unpacking “Open”
• Suitable licence
• File format
• Software (run / edit)
• Compatibility across
devices (e.g. Flash)
Open educational resources (OER) are learning and teaching
materials, freely available online for anyone to use. Examples
include full courses, course modules, lectures, games, teaching
materials and assignments. They can take the form of text, images,
audio, video and may even be interactive. (Jisc)
Licence to share
Image source:
http://board.raidrush.ws/threads/287828-james-
bond-logo (Reuse rights unknown)
9. Case study
• Core model
– Research lens
– Digital literacy lens
– Open content lens
– Evidence based practice healthcare
lens
• "sconul seven pillars of information
literacy“ Google search
10. Xerte Online Toolkits
• Open Source elearning software
• Suite of browser-based tools
• Create interactive learning materials
• Accessed from any networked PC
• Potential tool for teaching Digital
Literacy
– Digital Literacies in the disciplines
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/digital-
literacies
11. Developing an OER based on
the SCONUL 7 Pillars
Sheppard, NE and Nephin, E (2014) Digital literacy in practice: Developing an
interactive and accessible open educational resource based on the SCONUL
Seven Pillars of Information Literacy. SCONUL Focus, 60. ISSN 1745-5790
14. Creative Commons
• Attribution – CC BY
• Attribution-Share Alike – CC BY-SA
• Attribution-No Derivatives – CC BY-ND
• Attribution-Non-Commercial – CC BY-NC
• Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share-Alike – CC BY-
NC-SA
• Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs – CC BY-
NC-ND
15. Tools to discover CC content
• Google
• “sconul 7 pillars of information literacy” (not
filtered by licence)
• “sconul 7 pillars of information literacy” (free to
use or share)
• Jorum / OER Commons / SCORE
• Solvonauts - http://solvonauts.org/
17. Open Access in 2015
• Gold and green Open Access
• Creative Commons and Open Access
• RCUK policy (April 2012)
– RCUK funded authors must publish in RCUK-
compliant journals - offer a suitable gold option OR
a suitable green option
• Misunderstanding Creative Commons?
– IHR - open letter from the editors of 21 UK history
journals
• HEFCE policy (March 2014)
– Comes into effect April 1st 2016
– Emphasis back on “green” / self-archiving
– Info and digital literacy (Systems / Policy)
18. Synergy: OA & OER
• HEFCE policy serves to emphasise OA
• Synergies
– Repositories (Institutional/subject, OER)
• http://opendoar.org/
• https://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/
• http://humbox.ac.uk/
• http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
– Aggregations
• CORE (COnnecting REpositories)
• http://solvonauts.org/
– Managing (and disseminating) “institutional assets”
– Creative Commons
– Impact (metrics)
• Dissonance
– Institutional resource/support focussed on OA
20. Jorum: Community collections
• Research Data Management
– 37 records
• Information and Digital Literacy
Skills
– 177 resources
– 26 “open access”
• UK open access life cycle
• Jorum worked with
CoPILOT
Editor's Notes
My name is Nick and I’ve been a Repository Developer for 7 years.
I’m not a real librarian and I mostly use Google
XOT is web rather than desktop based so needs to be installed on a web-server. Technical implementation is relatively straightforward however and has the advantage that it can be accessed from any networked PC rather than a small number of licensed machines as is often the case with specialised commercial software and means it can be made available to all staff, and potentially students, across an organisation and is itself a potential tool for teaching Digital Literacy13; input is form based, intuitive enough for beginners with the option to use HTML tags or more sophisticated web-based technology. It can also be embedded on any webpage using an iframe. Moreover, as output is HTML5, unlike proprietary software, content is accessible on any device/browser including mobile. Content can also be more easily reused even without access to the software itself - just by cut and paste / right click -> save as. Like any HTML webpage.
Exceptions:
Non-commercial research and private study
Text and data mining for non-commercial research
Criticism, review and reporting current events
Teaching
The creator or copyright holder of a work has the exclusive right to:
copy the work
issue copies of the work to the public
perform, show or play the work to the public
communicate the work to the public (via broadcast or electronic transmission)
make an adaptation of the work
Except under certain circumstances, you should only copy or use a work protected by copyright with the copyright holder’s permission.
Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE))
We also promote OER’s to students via our Subject pages
GOLD
immediate (unembargoed) OA to the version of record from its own web site
under a CC-BY license
must allow immediate deposit of the version of record in an OA repository (also under CC-BY)
may levy an Article Processing Charge (APC)
GREEN
must allow deposit of the peer-reviewed manuscript in an OA repository not operated by the publisher
must allow non-commercial reuse
may require an embargo of up to 12 months for work funded by the AHRC and the ESRC
up to six months for work funded by any other Research Council
must not charge a fee for this option
Intro to Marketing
Intro to strategic management
Research practice methods
Project management
Idea is the core content modules contain tutorials, teaching materials that academic staff can repurpose for themselves