The document summarizes research conducted to analyze how to improve use of an institutional repository called O2 at a university. Interviews were conducted with lecturers, consultants, and students to understand awareness and use of the repository, desired additional features, and how to increase use among teachers and students. Recommendations included increasing promotion of the repository, adding proposed new features like tagging and commenting, improving classification of resources, and ensuring quality and quantity of resources.

1. O2,
the UOC's Institutional Repository
Users' study analysis
Community initiatives

2. INTRODUCTION
MAVSEL project
Analyze how to improve a learning scenario
How to transform the O2 in a learning scenario
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3. METHODOLOGY
In-Depth interviews
4 lecturers
4 consultants
7 students
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4. GOALS
● how much they know the O2
● why they use the repository or not
● add functionalities
● users' rating:
○ to value
○ bookmarks
○ comment / correct
○ share / recommend / send to a friend
○ tag
○ related resources
● how to increase the use of the Repository among teachers
and students
● perception of conceptual maps to show related resources
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5. RECOMMENDATIONS
● Institutional effort to publicise the repository
● Hierarchical promotion
● Add all the proposed functionalities
● Classification by subject
● Tag according to level of difficulty
● Learning itineraries
● Identified collaborations
● Increase the number of resources
● Resources from outside the UOC
● Guarantee the quality
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6. Thanks
Irene Manresa