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SWITCHcollection The Swiss e-Learning Content Exchange Platform
TNC 2009, Málaga
Rolf Brugger
© 2009 SWITCH
SWITCHcollection: Learning Object Repository
community repositoryto
sharevarious kinds of
digital learning contentof
swiss universities
© 2009 SWITCH
Goals and Motivation
• Re-use e-learning content• Open access to e-learning contents• Enhance collaboration (intra- and inter-institutional)• Make teaching activities visible to peers and to the public• Make teaching activities citable and referenceable• Increase quality of education• Attract students (Marketing)• Long-term archiving and distribution of content with stable
URL (content lifecyle)• Single point of entry for all kinds of e-learning contents -
independently from distribution platform
© 2009 SWITCH
General decisions
• restrictions, requirements– currently only learning objects– currently only Switzerland covered– currently limited to higher education
• no restrictions or constraints– granularity: course, module, lesson, image, video clip, pdf-doc, ...– license: creative commons, commercial, ...– access rights: public (free), restricted (group, private)– no formal quality criteria or reviewing (content managed by teachers)
• national system entirely based on open source software– Fedora, Lucene– OAI-PMH: PKP Open Archives Harvester,
Harrow (developed by SWITCH) http://harrow.sourceforge.net
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Architecture: FederationUniZH
Math-Nat Philosoph. Vet'medizin Medizin Wirtschaftsw. Rechtswiss. Theologie
FHO
Tech / IT / BauGesundheitsw.Planung / Wirtsch.Soziale Arbeit
St. GallenRappersw.BuchsChur
EPFL
Arch / Civil Eng. Chem / Math / Phys Engineering Inform. / Communic. Life Science Humanities Tech. Management
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Federation, Search Index, APIs
InstitutionalRepository
InstitutionalRepository
CommunityRepository
Federation
Community Search andDownload
Search Index
Harvester
EmbeddedSearch andDownload
EmbeddedSearch andDownload
...
...
OAI-PMH
REST
REST
Applications
Upload Form
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Folder Concept
UZH
UniBE
Rechtswiss.
Medizin
Philosoph. GenderStudies
Grundlagen
Themen
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Metadata Model - Subset of Dublin Core
• Mandatory– title
– author
– usage license (cc, +)
– access and edit rights
– discipline (contr. vocabulary)
• Automatic– unique id
– creation date
– modification date
– modification history
– ...
• Optional– contributor(s)
– publisher
– rights holder
– table of contents
– abstract
– keywords
– description
– language
– publication date
– education level
– instructional method
– bibliographic citation
– extent (duration)
– source id
http://www.switch.ch/els/collection/spec/
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Folders: Multiple Associations
UZH
UniBE
Rechtswiss.
Medizin
Philosoph.
GenderStudies
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Embedding Search Functions in Web Sites
www.yoursite.org
Search
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www.yoursite.org
Search inSubset
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Browse
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Customizable Interface
• Simple / advanced• Adapted to content type• Adapted to corporate identity• To enforce workflows
• Web-Services interface for custom front ends
Repository Engine
Uni A
Uni B: CMS
Videoportal
Web Services
API
LMSadapter
Image Library
adapter
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First Experiences and Challenges
• What works– sharing in well defined
workgroups
– contributions related to projects
– automated ingest from attached applications / repositories
• Open question– contributions from individuals?
• Courses contain copyrighted material
• Learning contents - personal property of teachers
• Missing business models• Missing incentives: additional
work without compensation• no culture established as with
– Open Source Software
– YouTube, Wikipedia, ...
– Research
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Comparison: Research and Education
Research Education
Funding Employer / School Employer / School
Publication as much as possible,support from editions
usually not
Qualityassurance
Peer-Review internal evaluation
Re-usage necessary, citation rules, contents can be changed, merged, copied
Text books,reluctantly or "secretly" with Google
Controlling Number of publications, Citation Index, Impact Factor
internal evaluation,(StudiVZ, myProf)
Guiding principle
Research results have to circulate
?
Danke
http://collection.switch.ch
http://switch.ch/els
