Intended Learning Outcomes: - Learn more about the developing institutional and national OER infrastructures supported by JISC - Discuss how these can be streamlined across the sector and improved/adapted to more fully support subject specific requirements (e.g. health) Abstract: The ALPS CETL repository project (ACErep) is examining the requirements of a repository infrastructure in local, regional and national contexts to more effectively facilitate sharing and reuse of appropriately licensed medical teaching, learning and assessment material. Three institutions in the ALPS consortium - the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and York St John University - all use different commercial platforms for their teaching and learning repositories. In addition there is the national HE/FE repository Jorum, and the NHS National eLearning Repository (NeLR), Informed by a user-group of institutional stakeholders, the goal of ACErep is to develop a clearly branded web-site from where staff at the respective institutions can: deposit resources into their own institutional repository cross-search the repositories from a single interface In addition, we have developed ties with the JISC funded PORSCHE project at Newcastle University which aims to provide seamless access to academic and clinical learning resources for healthcare students primarily from the respective collections in Jorum and the NeLR. The project utilises well-established repository technologies and has adapted an Open Source client to differentially deposit into a user’s institutional repository and liaised with Jorum to harvest metadata from multiple repositories. ACErep and PORSCHE are also working with Jorum on their development of an Open API (Application Programming Interface) upon which we can build a bespoke search portal. This work, in turn, builds on a prototype developed in collaboration with the Xpert repository at Nottingham University. This approach will have the benefit of digital assets being preserved in one location (an institutional repository) while providing multiple points of access as well as allowing the ALPS branded web-site and the institutional repositories to “piggyback” on Jorum’s Google pagerank thereby improving discoverability. The presentation will comprise a summary of the ACErep project to date; the emphasis will not be technical though technical implications and requirements will be discussed.

1. Towards a local, regional and national infrastructure for sharing medical teaching, learning and assessment material Nick Sheppard – Repository Developer Leeds Metropolitan University Blogs/twitter: http://acerep.wordpress.com http://repositorynews.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/mrnick

3. Phase 1 – Unicycle at Leeds Met

4. All material released under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

5. Local release AND via national UKOER repository (Jorum)

6. Phase 2 – PORSCHE (MEDEV)

7. Ongoing (Aug 31st) - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer

9. Develop process by which staff able to contribute to and draw upon a central repository of OER

10. Granular approach to OER

11. “Resources” rather than “Courseware”

12. Simple Application Profile – ukoer guidelines

13. Mediated deposit

14. Leeds Met repository, Jorum, other suitable outletshttp://unicycle-leedsmet.ning.com/

15. ALPS CETL A Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) focussing on assessment and learning in practice settings. 5 Universities (Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan, Bradford, Huddersfield and York St John) crossing 16 health and social care professions

17. Download resources from any of the platforms

18. Adapt existing resources to suit local use

20. Seamless repository access to academic /clinical learning resources for healthcare students

21. Establish basis for long term partnership NHS /academia

22. Sharing of appropriately licensed content between academia and healthcare national repositories

24. High capacity storage of digital learning objects

25. Classify / Search and locate / Manage access / Preserve

26. Institutional - Leeds Met repository, LUDOS, YSJ DigiRep

27. National - http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

28. Subject – NHS eLearning, MedEd Portal

29. Metadata

31. Search and locate these objects

33. Harvest, aggregation and discovery YSJ Digirep Jorum API

35. Web 2.0

36. mEducator - http://www.meducator.net/