The document discusses the integration of the National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) with Moodle2, highlighting the benefits such as improved accessibility and resource sharing for academics in Irish higher education. It outlines the functionalities of DSpace and the specific integration methods, planning trials at Sligo IT, and presents various opportunities for collaboration and resource management through the NDLR. For further information on installation and support, individuals are directed to the NDLR website and contact points.

1. Push & Pull
DSpace integration with Moodle2:
Integrating the NDLR with Moodle2
Catherine Bruen – NDLR Manager
Mark Melia – Enovation Solutions

2. Agenda
• BACKGROUND & RATIONALE
• What is DSpace?
• Why integrate Moodle with DSpace
• How do we integrate
• Next steps - Sligo IT trial
• How to integrate NDLR with your Moodle

3. NDLR provides a medium through which to interact and
collaborate nationally in a community involved in the
teaching of your subject area.
• Can save you time by using or repurposing existing material
• Is legal to use
• Can be integrated into your own courses without significant
effort
• Is contextually relevant to Irish HE
• Is developed by you or your peers in other institutions
• The NDLR actively supports the dissemination of your
research and teaching discipline through the repository but
also through its training and events

4. 10 things you can do with the NDLR
service
1. Find and share learning resources for your teaching
2. Get in touch with other academics in your subject area
3. See what initiatives are taking place in Higher Education
4. Present your teaching experiences and research to a national
audience
5. View the NDLR national funded digital resource projects
6. Join a SMART Community of Practice
7. Get support and help developing learning resources for your
subject
8. Find out about national events and training
9. Know your rights – copyright and IP
10.Funding opportunities and NDLR Publications

5. 'If the mountain
will not come to
Muhammad, then
Muhammad must
go to the
mountain’
Francis Bacon,
Essays, 1625
Dion Hinchcliffe. Available
online at: httpweb2.wsj2.com

6. “The Wisdom of Crowds” or Community
Surowiecki, 2004
What holds them together is a common sense of purpose and a real
need to know what each other knows”
John Seely Brown
“They are held together by a common interest in a body of knowledge
and are driven by a desire and need to share problems, experiences,
insights, templates, tools & best practice, community members
deepen their knowledge by interacting on an ongoing basis”
Hubert, Newhouse & Vestal (2001)
“Knowledge is shared within the community based on relationships
with others, rather than direct transactions therefore a primary
purpose of CoPs is supporting knowledge flows between people”
Van Winkelen, 2003

8. What is DSpace
• OS institutional repository
– http://dspace.org
• Manage cataloguing, workflow, access to
digital assets
• NDLR use it to store reusable teaching and
learning resources for universities and ITs
– https://dspace.ndlr.ie

11. Why integrate?
• Disconnected experience
• NDLR becomes more easily accessible
• Increase sharing of assets

12. How NDLR is integrated
• Moodle2 repository (NDLR  Moodle2)

13. How NDLR is Integrated
• Moodleblock (Moodle2  NDLR)

14. Getting resources from NDLR in Moodle
Pushing resources to NDLR from
Moodle

15. Sligo IT Trial
• We are currently trialingthe technology with
Sligo IT
• Preliminary feedback is:
• Very useful
• Very easy
• More metadata when displaying items

16. Integrating NDLR with your Moodle
• NDLR will be announcing where to get it and
how to install on their webpage
– http://www.ndlr.ie
• More info can also be sought by contacting
NDLR
– helpdesk@ndlr.ie
• Similar venture?
– mark.melia@enovation.ie