Digital Commons @ Otterbein
- 1. Enhancing Teaching, Learning, and Research DIGITAL COMMONS @ OTTERBEIN
- 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
- 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 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 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?
- 8. MSAH PROGRAM
- 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?
- 15. Somehow, some way, everyone works together to make it happen?! 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
- 20. OPPORTUNITIES
- 21. QUESTIONS?
Editor's Notes
- #4: 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