Richard Nurse

11 May 2009

TELSTAR

www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

Introduction

TELSTAR: Technology Enhanced Learning supporting STudents to achieve Academic Rigour

One of 21 projects funded under the UK Higher Education JISC Institutional Innovation Programme (Phase 2 - Large-scale Institutional Exemplars)

Project timescale: November 2008 - February 2010

www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

Who is involved and What is it all about?

• The Open University – Library

– Learning & Teaching Solutions

• RefWorks http://www.refworks.com

“How can The Open University manage the process of integrating legacy systems into a recently introduced institution-wide VLE?”

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AimsTo create an exemplar project to:• develop a more robust integrated solution for managing

library content within the Virtual Learning Environment workflow;

• model more effective bibliographic resource management;

• investigate the impact on changing bibliographic referencing practice;

• support the development of high quality bibliographic management skills.

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Objectives• Options for developing bibliographies• Investigating changes to the e-production process • Integrating the bibliographies created with RefWorks into

the VLE (Moodle) • Incorporate persistent linking technologies• Enable bibliographies created to be reused by students• Test integrating a RefWorks application within the current

ePortfolio system • Explore the potential of free tools e.g. Zotero• Evaluate staff and user experience • Develop a Service Usage Model (SUM)

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Current processes and issues

• RSS feeds of resources developed for each course and fed into the VLE

• Some courses have access to the MyOpenLibrary resource portal but it isn’t scalable to all courses

• Many “standards” of citation referencing – do you have a standard style?

• RefWorks and Endnote used• No integration or re-usability of bibliographic citations

My Open Library

Course – K315 Critical Social Work Practice

TELSTAR workflow

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Project Outcomes• Prototype plug-ins within the VLE and the e-Portfolio system to allow integration with RefWorks

• Expected benefits for: – Learners– Programme and course teams– Library Services– The OU– RefWorks– The wider community – Moodle and HE

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Progress to date

• Project website http://www.open.ac.uk/telstar/

• Team recruited• System investigations (OU VLE, ePortfolio system,

MyOpenLibrary & RefWorks)• Process investigations including the eProduction

process • Project dissemination

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Next steps

• Refinement of the TELSTAR integration model • Detailed stakeholder requirements with Learning and

Teaching Librarians and Faculties • Development of prototype plug-ins for VLE and e-

portfolio systems• Disseminating progress through the project website

and through conferences and events

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TELSTAR

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/707350/JISC_TELSTAR_Project