DSpace integration with Moodle2: Integrating the NDLR with Moodle2

Push & Pull

DSpace integration with Moodle2: Integrating the NDLR with Moodle2

Catherine Bruen – NDLR ManagerMark Melia – Enovation Solutions

Agenda

• BACKGROUND & RATIONALE• What is DSpace?• Why integrate Moodle with DSpace• How do we integrate• Next steps - Sligo IT trial• How to integrate NDLR with your Moodle

NDLR provides a medium through which to interact and collaborate nationally in a community involved in the teaching of your subject area.

• Can save you time by using or repurposing existing material • Is legal to use • Can be integrated into your own courses without significant

effort • Is contextually relevant to Irish HE • Is developed by you or your peers in other institutions • The NDLR actively supports the dissemination of your research

and teaching discipline through the repository but also through its training and events

10 things you can do with the NDLR service

1. Find and share learning resources for your teaching 2. Get in touch with other academics in your subject area 3. See what initiatives are taking place in Higher Education 4. Present your teaching experiences and research to a national audience5. View the NDLR national funded digital resource projects 6. Join a SMART Community of Practice 7. Get support and help developing learning resources for your subject 8. Find out about national events and training 9. Know your rights – copyright and IP 10.Funding opportunities and NDLR Publications

Dion Hinchcliffe. Available online at: httpweb2.wsj2.com

'If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain’

Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

“The Wisdom of Crowds” or CommunitySurowiecki, 2004

What holds them together is a common sense of purpose and a real need to know what each other knows”

John Seely Brown

“They are held together by a common interest in a body of knowledge and are driven by a desire and need to share

problems, experiences, insights, templates, tools & best practice, community members deepen their knowledge by interacting on

an ongoing basis”Hubert, Newhouse & Vestal (2001)

“Knowledge is shared within the community based on relationships with others, rather than direct transactions therefore a primary purpose of CoPs is supporting knowledge flows between people”

Van Winkelen, 2003

What is DSpace

• OS institutional repository– http://dspace.org

• Manage cataloguing, workflow, access to digital assets

• NDLR use it to store reusable teaching and learning resources for universities and ITs– https://dspace.ndlr.ie

Why integrate?

• Disconnected experience• NDLR becomes more easily accessible• Increase sharing of assets

How NDLR is integrated

• Moodle2 repository (NDLR Moodle2)

How NDLR is Integrated

• Moodle block (Moodle2 NDLR)

Getting resources from NDLR in Moodle

Pushing resources to NDLR from Moodle

Sligo IT Trial

• We are currently trialing the technology with Sligo IT

• Preliminary feedback is:• Very useful• Very easy• More metadata when displaying items

Integrating NDLR with your Moodle• NDLR will be announcing where to get it and

how to install on their webpage – http://www.ndlr.ie

• More info can also be sought by contacting NDLR– [email protected]

• Similar venture?– [email protected]