current directions in educational repositories, p.mc andrew
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Current directions in
educational repositories:
my perspective
Patrick McAndrew
Institute of Educational Technology
www.open.ac.uk
Iet.open.ac.uk/courses
6m visitors since launch
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trushu/3712280049
The legacy trap
Search
Solving search
trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/151695072
Metadata Trap
Build it and they will come trap
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
The system is everything trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos
/marcemarc/2385399277/ The one
stop shop
trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/
Forgetting
the past
trap
The Holy Grail trap
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiritual_marketplace/2207966935
Viscious circle
• Head brick wall
The brick wall trap
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Viscious circle
• Head brick wall
The brick wall trap
Reasons to be cheerful?
Be Open
Openness
works
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Learning does happen
Listening to others
Testing ideas
Keep it simple
How many different types of
learning and teaching approaches
do you need?
How many different types of
learning and teaching approaches
do you need?
Think…
Pair…
Share
Build on the
work of others
Look for the unexpected
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Content Social
Ask…
Traps
• Searching – beat Google
• Metadata – for the good of others
• Audience – they will emerge from use
• System – the backend takes over from the frontend
• One stop shop – ignores reality
• Forgetting the past – avoid reinventing the wheel
• Holy Grail – seeking what does not exist
• Brick wall – carry on regardless
Advice
• Openness – be open
• Participation – routes in
• Involve others – experts and users
• Keep simple – hide complexity
• Build on work of others – mashup don’t build
• Find the right questions
Dr Patrick McAndrew
The Open University
Institute of Educational Technology
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AAolnet.org