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Community Aspects of the NDLR:
Information Literacy
CaRILLO 2010Catherine Bruen
National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR)Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
W: http://www.ndlr.ieT: #ndlrfest
F: http://www.facebook.com/NationalDigitalLearningResources
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Setting the Scene
• National Partnership• Rapid Change• Diverse Stakeholders• SMART Communities of Users
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“to promote and support Higher Education academia in
the collaboration, development and sharing of digital learning resources and associate teaching practices”
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What does OER mean to our Community?
“digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and
reuse for teaching, learning and research”
(OECD, 2007)
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Open Educational Resources • Protective attitudes disappearing• The contributors are the “Librarians”• Technology • “Resources in the Wild”
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“The Wisdom of Crowds” or CommunitySurowiecki, 2004
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An Evolutionary Pathway to establish sustainable communities of
academics
Level 1Support individual
AcademicsWithin Uni/IoT
(LIPS)
Level 2Support collaborative
Academics withinSubject disciplines
(LINCS)
Level 3EncourageSustainable
Communities
Institutional Projects
Sustainable NDLR academic communities
• SSustainable• MManageable• AActive• RRelevant &
Reflective• TTargeted
Service team that is:Supportive
Motivational
Accessible
Responsive
Technologically Competent
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Individual Academics – Level 1 (LIPs)
NDLR Service supports• Learning Innovation projects (LIPS)• Embedded in HE Sector through
partnership with local programmes and T & L centres
• Quality application of TeL & T & L awards
• Research – teaching - nexus• Responsive & flexible Training
support• Open access DRM of LRs• Intra-Institutional Collaborations
lead to focus on reuse, teaching practices and Learning design
Level 1Supporting individual Academics
Within partner institutions through LIPs
Groups
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Groupings of Academics – Level 2 (LINCs)
NDLR Service supports• Learning Innovation Community
Support projects (LINCs)• Liaise with local institutional
coordinators in all T & L Centres• Identification of synergies &
potential collaboration between different academic groupings.
• Support these groupings to make the transition to the collective....SMARTCoPs
• Re-use in integral to the process
Level 2Supporting collaborative
Groups of Academics within
Subject disciplines through LINCS
Networks
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SMART Communities of Practice - Level 3 SMARTCoPs
NDLR Service supports• Advice & support in the creation
and use of RLRs• Promote & facilitate information,
national programme, design, development, tools & case studies;
• NDLR community portal• Cross-institutional linking
between academics and projects with shared interests;
• Sustainable, Manageable, Active, Relevant and Reflective, Targeted COPs
Level 3Encouraging Sustainable
Communities
Collective
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Some NDLR Resources
Plagiarism Interactive tutorial by Dundalk Institute of Technology
Searching Scientific Databases
Captivate movies for searching Web of Science & Science Direct databases
Enquiry and Problem Based Learning and the Information Literate Student (poster)
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ISCOPISCOP community contributions:
have been somewhat slow:“want to update my resource”“want to improve it”
NDLR can support this through:• Appropriate training• LIP funding• Encourage use through
promotion of others work
Articulate Training 2010
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Media, Information & Library Studies Smart CoP
• ISCOP will re-launch as MILS - Media, Information & Library Studies Smart CoP in Oct. 2010 (ISCED and new NDLR groupings)
• Promote collaborations and market MyRI (Measure Your Research Impact) Bibliometrics project funded through NDLR LInCs
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Acknowledgements and Thanks
• Nancy Graham• Miriam Allen• JORUM• Our Partners