directorate of learning resources steve burholt (elearning systems developer) rowena rouse (library...
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Directorate of Learning Resources
Steve Burholt (eLearning Systems Developer)
Rowena Rouse (Library IT Developer)
Richard Francis (Head of eLearning)
Jan Haines (Head of Library Services)
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Showcasing your and your department’s research?
Increasing citations in preparation for REF?
Finding colleagues with similar research interests?
Identifying partners for funding bids?
Linking teaching and research?
Improving student access to resources?
Developing flexible, re-usable teaching resources?
Showcasing course materials for recruitment?
Disseminating best practice (e.g. in learner experience research and e-learning)?
Saving time and avoiding duplication in course development?
Ensuring resources are current and consistent across courses?
Sharing resources in open educational archives?
What’s on your radar?
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• Started life in 2007 as the CIRCLE project, funded by JISC as part of a £14m national programme to develop repositories in Higher Education
• The RADAR project continues that work, using Equella software
• Collaboration between Media Workshop, Library and Schools
Background to the RADAR project
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What is radar?
Research
Archive and
Digital
Assets
Repository
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Radar demo
What is radar?
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What does it do?
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Brookes research archive
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Learning materials
Apr
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Brookes Virtual
Staff profilesAcademics / Researchers at Brookes – outputs: publications, theses, books, conference papers, exhibitions, installations
SchoolsResearch Administrators
Performance metricsRBDOREF
radar – research archive and digital asset repository“..showcasing Brookes research and managing online teaching materials”
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Pilot groups
Research
• School of Technology research outputs
• JISC Learner experience project outputs
• Pedagogic research collection
Images
• Bob Pomfret’s cartoons
• Media Workshop archive of Brookes photos
• Primate conservation image collection (400+)
Video
• Graphics Workshop video streams
Documents
• Business School
• School of Health and Social Care – distance learning
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Radar and the VLE
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Radar and the VLE
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VLE PowerLink Demo
Radar and the VLE
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How do you set up a collection in RADAR?
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1: Find the materials!
Research skills collectionsResearch papers
Photos
Self-contained learning activities
Videos
Multiple-choice question banks
Case studies
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2: Decide how to catalogue the objects
Title
Description
Keywords
File format
School
Used on which module?
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2: Decide how to catalogue the objects
Title
Description
Keywords
File format
School
Used on which module?
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2: Decide how to catalogue the objects
Title
Description
Keywords
File format
School
Used on which module?
“Dublin Core”
International standard
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3: Design the “input screens”
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4: Display the data
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• Keep track of documents and versions
• Online teaching materials will be catalogued, therefore easier to find and share
What are the advantages of using radar?
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• Keep track of documents and versions
• Online teaching materials will be catalogued, therefore easier to find and share
• Allows Schools to have public collections to showcase resources
• Brings together research and learning materials (papers, videos, datasets)
What are the advantages of using radar?
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What next?
• Pilot groups upload collections
• RADAR show and tell sessions
• Testing of RADAR / VLE link
• Integration with Brookes authentication system
• RADAR launch - 16 October 2009