In the era of shared educational resources and increased open access publications, the use of Institutional Repositories is becoming more and more relevant. Whether course materials, textbooks, syllabi, video lectures and conferences, educational resources can be shared with a community of on-campus and off-campus students, and can be made available to a global audience as well. The potential of institutional repositories to help foster change within the academy is significant. Join us for a presentation and discussion of Otterbein’s Institutional Repository- Digital Commons @ Otterbein! You will learn and brainstorm with our peer faculty on how to make use of this tool to enhance teaching, learning and research.
2. Started with IR committee in 2012
Bepress purchased in May 2014
Officially launched in October 2014
Early adopter among private, liberal arts schools
Evolving project
Current highlights include Doctoral papers, student
honors and distinction projects, master’s theses, SYE
student projects, faculty scholarship, events like
Leadership Hour, etc.
A LITTLE HISTORY
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4. An Institutional Repository meets the needs of the institution
Archiving function:
“Scholarly research, creative activity and other full-text learning resources
that merit enduring and archival value and permanent access” Western
Kentucky University
WHAT IS AN IR AND HOW DO WE USE IT?
IR Blackboard E-Portfolio
Permanent archive that can be used in
providing course content
Temporary course content X
Open Access X Partial Open Access
Discoverable by multiple means X Partially discoverable
Teacher & student driven Teacher driven Student driven
Stable content X X
5. THE VALUE OF AN IR IN TEACHING,
LEARNING AND RESEARCH
Open textbooks, guides, or other archival course material
Digital Collections
Essential role in E-Learning
Self-archiving faculty research
Publishing undergraduate and graduate research
Theses, dissertations, Honors and Capstone Projects
Journals and creative projects
Conference presentations
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Student Research Posters, Presentations and
Papers
IRs
6. Discoverability in search engines and
discovery layer
Departmental review
Student enrollment, retention and success
Ranking web of Universities
Other collections:
Digital stories
Photographs
Conference proceedings
Seminars
THE VALUE OF AN IR IN TEACHING,
LEARNING AND RESEARCH
7. OPEN ACCESS Collections from University of
South Florida -- digitized textbooks
Five Colleges of Ohio Digital Repository – This
Ohio consortium merged their digital
collections together into one repository
Undergraduate Research Commons -- A
showcase of outstanding undergraduate
research
Illinois Wesleyan – Examples of peer reviewed
undergraduate journals
Bowdoin College – Archives image gallery and
more
WHAT ARE OTHER SCHOOLS DOING?
9. Required completion of Thesis or
Practicum project
Thesis papers have always been
submitted - few thesis projects
All students required to complete a
oral defense of project
Spring 2015 - copy of oral
presentation submitted for practicum
Future plans: video presentations for
posting
Goals:
1. Share students work
2. Give other students ability to view
students works
GRADUATE STUDIES
11. We use the Commons within
a program?
Like SYE?
WHAT IF?
12. We think seriously about SYE’s SLOs,
particularly one we have trouble
meeting, measuring?
Goal 1: You will apply the knowledge, skills,
and values developed through your major and
general education to develop solutions to
meet contemporary challenges/problems.
SLO: You will prepare a learning legacy to
leave to future students.
WHAT IF?
13. We film SYE final group projects and upload
the videos and papers to the Commons?
WHAT IF?
14. You follow through on questions
Consultations
Meetings
Permissions
Forms
Logistics, logistics, logistics
WHAT IF?
16. Make SYE more clear to future students and to
faculty; promote internally & externally
Actually does leaves a legacy: future students
can cite earlier projects, not go back to square
one
Encourages students to create more
professional products
Communicates interdisciplinary nature of
groups and student responses to contemporary
problems
Use as assessment tool
Use as recruitment tool
ADVANTAGES
17. Make abstract part of assignment
Make possible posting part of class, syllabus,
and assignment from beginning
Have students be responsible for uploading
Work more with students on public nature of
their work: formatting details, professional
touches, surface polish
LESSONS
18. Tension between exemplary and
representative (SYE asks students to quickly
learn something new & apply expertise &
skills from different disciplines to create
solutions to problems – their group projects
are not the work of individual disciplinary
specialists)
Work for SYE Advisory, faculty: best group
project in each class? best across all classes?
competition? how use for assessment?
CHALLENGES
19. How ensure quality of work, evaluate
before posting?
How is it funded?
Is there room on server for large quantity
of youtube videos?
CHALLENGES
How did we think the repository would be used? How is it being used now?
IR committee started in 2012, and final purchasing in May 2014. Officially launched in October 2014
Current highlights include Doctoral papers, student honors and distinction projects, master’s theses, SYE student projects, faculty scholarship, events like Leadership Hour, etc.
Early adopter among private, liberal arts schools
Bepress around since