WLBR Project

Appointment of Learning Technologist

Andrew Rothery — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:35:42 +0000

Mark Adams has joined the Project Team at Worcester as a Learning Technologist. His role will be to work with authors of materials to help them prepare electronic resources and show them and encourage them to upload them to the repository.

Meetings with partners Feb 2010

Andrew Rothery — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:34:26 +0000

Following meetings via Skype between the team at Worcester and that at Southampton the project has now reached a stage where the new sustainable version of the software based on EPrints will be introduced. Initially this will be hosted at Southampton, and the current data transferred. Later in the Spring, the entire system will be transferred to servers here at Worcester.

Meanwhile we are all admiring the new profile page, the preview arrangements and a number of other improvements.

We will be introducing our requirements for access levels and “secret url” feature when the new version is established.

Meeting with partners 19 January 2010

Andrew Rothery — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:39:30 +0000

Andrew met with Yvonne, Seb and Marcus via Skype to review progress and plans for system development.

The new “preview” system with media player has recently been incorporated. A facility to promote collaboration in which people will be able to edit each other’s resources is to be introduced in the next week or two. The new EdShare version with sustainable software and EPrints packages will be launched in the next week or two and this will replace our system, hosted at Southampton; installation on Worcester servers would then follow later in the Spring. The revised “secret url” and trimmed down access options will be done in the next week. Problems with the “collections” facility might be a bug – Seb and Marcus would investigate this for us.

Worcester will be appointing a Learning Technologist next week (interviews on 26th January) so that the repository will be fully funtional with major features in place ready for the planned work with tutors to build the resource collection.

It was suggested that a further Skype meeting be held in a week’s time.

Revised project schedule

Andrew Rothery — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:19:11 +0000

Revised project schedule has been approved by JISC Programme Manager, filed on this web site under documents.

Skype Meeting Wed 9th December 2009

vivbell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:55:31 +0000

Andrew, Viv, Seb, Yvonne and Dave met by Skype to dicuss a revised schedule of activities and plan further changes to the look and feel of the repository (see suggested extension document on the documents and publications page)

The most important changes to be made are:

Secret url and access options
Collections to get working
Multiple files to get working

This will ensure that early user trials can begin in Jan 2010

Meeting Notes 13th October 2009

vivbell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:08:18 +0000

WLBR_MeetingNotes_13_10_09

First implementation of WLBR

vivbell — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:17:36 +0000

Pilot repository arrived today! Hot off the press:

http://lslvm-pm1.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Educational Repository Exchange Community Start up meeting 1-2nd September 2009, University of Southampton

vivbell — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:13:09 +0000

Programme:

1^st September 2009 – Day 1

6:30 Meet for dinner at the Dock o’ the Bay Restaurant (until late)

69, The Avenue, 

Southampton SO17 1XS  

Tel: 023 8033 9901

2^nd September 2009 – Day 2

Location: Building 32, Access Grid Room 3073, University of Southampton

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/getto.php (Building 32 has a shiny glass front and faces the main road through the University; Room 3073 is on the third floor towards the middle)

9:00 coffee

9:30 How can we capture and exchange the knowledge we build and lessons we learn

10:15 working in small groups – routes to stakeholder engagement

what does each stakeholder want to get out of having an educational repository?
what might they lose, or fear they might lose?
what are their motivations?

11:30 Principles underpinning EdShare and Language Box

discussion: reflect, challenge, lessons to take forward

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Educational repository sustainability (ePrints team)

support into the future
sustainability
business models

14:30 Academic and Stakeholder engagement

Andrew Rothery, WLBR
Anna Comas-Quinn, LORO

15:15 The way forward for the edR exchange community

motivations
mechanisms ( meetings, communications methods etc)

16:00 Finish

August activities

Andrew Rothery — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:46:40 +0000

Patrick is preparing an initial version of the software to be hosted at Southampton. He aims to have it ready by the end of August.

System Specification

vivbell — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:25:36 +0000

The system specification was sent to Southampton in July 2009

Systems Specification