OnCoRe Blueprint: The Art & Science of Repository Creation

1. OnCoRe Blueprint: The Art & Science of Repository Creation Susie Henderson Florida Distance Learning Consortium

2. What we’ll cover… • Repository background • OnCoRe Blueprint Project • Unique repository features • A community of practice • The Blueprint • Lessons Learned • Future of repositories

3. What is a Digital Repository? A system that: • stores and manages digital resources • facilitates discovery of resources • enables resource sharing and re-use • provides multiple levels of appearance, accessibility, and control mechanisms Often large statewide, regional, or national systems

4. Why Build a Repository? • Improve teaching and learning • Decrease duplication of effort through the re-use of quality digital content • Establish content independence • Contain or reduce development costs: Content is created once and used or repurposed many times

5. Which states are developing repositories that we know of? • California • Florida • Georgia • Kentucky • Louisiana • Minnesota • North Carolina • Tennessee

6. How do you go about building a repository? • What should you consider? • Is there a guide or a cookbook?

7. provides information, resources, research, & lessons learned from actual repository projects The OnCoRe Blueprint

8. Blueprint Project Benefits • Gather best practices • Discover innovative or unique repository features • Produce free monthly webinars on relevant topics • Research open source repository products • Create a community of practice • Produce OnCoRe Blueprint as a dynamic online resource

9. Research Repositories & Interview Leadership

10. Gather Best Practices • North Carolina CC Repository RFP • Intute harvesting/federating info • Standards • Metadata • Software

11. Discover innovative or unique features that benefit faculty and students. For example…

12. Rice University Connexions • Free and open access • Anyone can contribute resources • Textbook publishing

15. Connexions – A University Press • Re-mix content to create a textbook • Order it online • Delivered the next day by courier • Cost effective • reduces the cost of a 300-page hardback engineering textbook from $122 to $22 • Always up-to-date with the latest material from the global repository.

16. Wisc-Online • Based at Fox Valley Technical College • Funded by • Fox Valley Technical College • Wisconsin Technical College System • Grants (FIPSE, NSF, & others) • Corporate training efforts • Create learning objects for faculty members • Staff of 15

17. Wisc Online Learning Object Development • A faculty member identifies a difficult topic • Hard for learners to understand • Presents challenges for instructional delivery • The instructor creates a content outline and script

18. Learning Object Development • Work with Wisc-online team to develop • Instructional designer adapts the content for multimedia and Web delivery • Technical developer builds the object • Reviewers and the editor evaluate the object • Faculty member reviews and approves the final learning object to be posted

21. MERLOT • Partnerships • State University and College Systems • Individual Campuses • Professional Societies • Digital Libraries • Corporate Partners

24. Intute • Based in UK • Funded by Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) • Database of vetted web resources • Web searching for scholarship

28. Create a Community of Practice • No cost to participate • Share information • Explore issues • Provide expert presentations via webinars • Facilitate online discussions (blog, wiki) • The OnCoRe Blueprint

29. OnCoRe Blueprint Project • FIPSE funded 2006-2009 • Website www.oncoreblueprint.org • Blueprint • Planning • Implementation • Sustainability

30. OnCoRe Blueprint Project

31. OnCoRe Blueprint Project

33. Lessons Learned • Involve state leadership – early – to create champions • Planning and policies are key • Core effective staff are: • Director • Project Manager • Technical/Programmer • Adequate and sustainable funding are required • Distribute workload to institutions to save money and achieve buy-in

34. Lessons Learned • The term “learning object is overused and misunderstood • Adopt a vocabulary that describes and defines repository resources • content asset • information object • learning object • learning component

35. Lessons Learned • Content Development • Expensive, time-consuming, but rewarding professional development for faculty • Cross-functional team most effective • Subject Matter Experts – 2 • Instructional designer (at least 1) • Developer (at least 1) • You can’t build all the content your state needs – and - don’t want to!

36. Lessons Learned Repository software must be • Simple & easy to use • Intuitive • Customizable • Standards based • Supports federation and harvesting It’s difficult to overcome negative perceptions

37. The Future of Repositories • Textbook publishing • Publisher content • Integration of LMS and repositories • Repositories as portals

38. Repository URL’s • The Orange Grovehttp://www.theorangegrove.org/ • Rice Connexionshttp://cnx.org/ • Wisc-Onlinehttp://www.wisc-online.com/ • BC Campus SOL*Rhttp://solr.bccampus.ca/cms2/ • MERLOThttp://www.merlot.org/ • OER Commonshttp://www.oercommons.org/ • Maricopa Learning Exchangehttp://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/ • CLOE http://cloe.on.ca/

39. Questions & Answers Susie Henderson, Principal Investigator, OnCoRe Blueprint 850-922-3359 shenderson@distancelearn.org Miko Pattie, Kentucky Learning Depot, OnCoRe Blueprint Pilot Partner State