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THE CARRICK INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION LTD
The Rise and Fall of the ALTC Exchange
Associate Professor Rob Phillips
Educational Development UnitMurdoch University
THE CARRICK INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION LTD
My Role2006: Consultant: facilitating
shared understandings2007: Senior Consultant:
technical advice and facilitation
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What is the ALTC Exchange?
“your space for learning and teaching connections”
◦A social networking and repository service for learning and teaching
◦Not just a repository◦A place for sharing, discussing and
learning
CARRICK EXCHANGE
Search and Access
Social Networking
Contribution
Project Workspace Other Services
Simple, advanced and federated searches
Download and use of resources
A ‘sandpit’ to explore new technologies
Notification services (RSS feeds, etc.)
Archive of completed projects
Private and public space
Groups with a need to collaborate and share
Toolkit of group functions
Contribute your own resources
Digital rights with range of licensing options
Peer review
Exchange ideas about teaching practice
Form communities of practice around L&T issues
Informal tagging of resources
Commentary and ratings on resources
Reflective journals
S e
r v
i c
e s
More than a Repository
Australian Authentication Framework and web services
Users Interfaces Services Repositories
User 1All
servicesExchange repository
Contribution
Search and access
University repositories
International repositories
Social services
Team workspace
User 2Set of
services
CoP 1Set of
services
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Functionality OverviewNavigation
◦Four structured content modes◦Unstructured navigation - tags
Informal Socialisation◦Tagging, rating, linking
Formal Socialisation◦Open Special interest groups◦Closed Project groups
MyExchange – YourExchange
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Front Screen top
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Menus
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Discipline page
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Books
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Investigations
Failure Factors of previous initiatives
Engagement and contribution strategies
Rewards and RecognitionPeer review and commentaryIntellectual property and rights
managementMetadata
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Engagement and RewardsStrategies to build self-
sustaining communities◦Engagement strategy◦Champions
Reputational factors◦eg Contributor of the month
Inclusion in promotion policies
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Peer ReviewDifferent levels for different types
of resourcesOpen vs closed peer reviewScheme developed by ascilite
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Rights Management
Goal of open sharing, while protecting your work and enabling others to modify it
Creative CommonsAddressing the dilemmas
◦Universities generally claim copyright in teaching and learning materials
◦Will they stop staff from contributing?
◦Political…
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Metadata
100s of learning resources catalogued
Metadata schema and vocabulary developed
Dilemma between◦Minimising workload◦Maximising searchability
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Menus
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A Visionary ProjectProject was complexTechnically quite ambitiousComplex policy issuesPolitically ambitiousProject was proceeding on
schedule and under budget
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History2006 – consultation and think
tank2007 – project development
◦ on schedule and under budget Sept 2007 – project wound back2008 – project restructured2011 – service closed down
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Why Did it Fail?Risk ManagementOne risk was
◦“Senior Management doesn’t understand the concept”
Too risky for management…Wound-back project focussed on
technologyNot community
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Online Community Success FactorsEngagement Strategy
◦Awareness, knowledge, useNature of Community
◦Littlejohn & Margaryan◦Purpose, context, coherence, rules,
roles and responsibilities, modes of dialogue
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Types of Communities - CareyCommunity of interest: people
share a common interest Community of purpose: people
trying to achieve a similar goalCommunity of action: people who
cooperatively design things Community of practice: people
share a common interest over an extended period of time to “establish professional identity and norms for practice” Community of disinterest: time poverty
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From Disinterest to Communities of Practice Community Drivers
◦Point of Passion◦Point of Pain◦Point of Problem – driver for adult
learning
Bush Telegraph example
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Contributing and Lurkinghttp://wikipatterns.com/90-9-1 Theory
◦90% readers◦9% minor contributors◦1% active contributors
◦ Can you develop the 1% of champions?
See also Hummel et al.
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Implications for Libraries
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Implications for LibrariesAvoid delivery
Communities of disinterestAddress people at their Point of
ProblemLearning is an internal activity
which often occurs informally by engaging with meaningful tasks
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References Carey, T. (2007).
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/carey.pdf
Hummel, H., Tattersall, C. Brugos, D. Brouns, F., Kurvers, H. and Koper, R. (2005). Facilitating participation: From EML web site to the learning network for learning design. Interactive Learning Environments, 13(1-2), 55–69.
Margaryan, A. & Littlejohn, A. (2007). http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/margaryan.pdf
Philip, R., Lefoe. G., O'Reilly, M. & Parrish, D. (2007). http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/singapore07/procs/philip.pdf
