References and bibliographic management within Moodle

Jason Platts Lead Technical Developer The Open University An overview of how the Open University has incorporated bibliographic references within their Moodle-powered VLE References and bibliographic management within Moodle

TELSTAR (Technology Enhanced Learning supporting STudents to achieve Academic Rigour) www.open.ac.uk/telstar/ Funded under the UK Higher Education Joint Information Systems Committee's Institutional Innovation Programme (Phase 2 - Large-scale Institutional Exemplars)

www.refworks.com “An online research management, writing and collaboration tool is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.”

[object Object],1. An acknowledgement of other’s work and ideas 2. A description of a resource intended to identify the resource to the extent a copy of the resource can be discovered

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Where do our students come across references in their online learning experience? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Generating reference data and importing into Moodle. We need data in a structured format Title: Using Moodle: Teaching with the popular open source course management system Author: Cole, Jason Publisher: O'Reilly Community Press Place of publication : Sebastopol, CA Year of publication : 2005 ISBN: 0596008635 Format: Book We need to collate references

Course references Generating reference data and importing into Moodle. RSS feed XML Course content (Word docs)

Generating reference data and importing into Moodle.

Providing links to reference sources (resources) XML OpenURL service (SFX) Online source ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SFX connects to Library catalogue and authentication services to ensure source is accessible

Adding functionality to references

Adding functionality to references ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Download reference data for import into bibliographic management software e.g. RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero

Adding functionality to references Moodle filter

MyReferences Connects via API to users RefWorks accounts “Core” RefWorks functionality Simple familiar interface ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],MyReferences – Bibliographic management module; integrating Moodle with RefWorks.

MyReferences No data stored in Moodle ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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“ It would be time-saving for students and stop them having to worry about the details” OU Staff member, Focus group 2009

“ Wish I’d had it through my course” OU student, Focus group 2009

www.open.ac.uk/blogs/telstar Want to find out more? Code released under open-source licence http://code.google.com/p/telstar/ [email_address]

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