Losing control, or how I learned to love user generated content Iain Wallace Spoken Word Services AL

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Losing control, or how I learned to love user
generated contentIain WallaceSpoken Word
Services-- ALT-C 2007 --
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Me
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Glasgow Caledonian

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The Saltire Centre
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Spoken Word Services

• Origins as part of JISC-NSF DLIC Programme
• Partnership with the BBC and Northwestern and
  Michigan State Universities in US
• Enhancing learning through provision of access to
  authentic digital audio and video resources
• Pedagogy, Content and Tools
• Multi-disciplinary
• Based within Learner Support, The Saltire Centre
• Find us at www.spokenword.ac.uk

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Project Partners
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Users Learners
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Enhancing access
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Finding stuff

• Padova - an open source meta-linking finding aid
  which sits on top of our repository
• Dynamic XML feeds for searches (RSS, ATOM, and
  for Podcasts), Linking, Citation
• Integration with Delicious, Google Scholar,
  Wikipedia

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Padova . find

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Padova
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What then for learners?

• Case Studies
• Karen Thompson, Tourism Management, University of
  Strathclyde with REAP project
• 1st year course - 230 students, two semesters
• Traditionally been delivered as two lectures per
  week supported by four one-hour tutorials per
  semester
• The Problem Attendance at lectures poor and
  declines a lot throughout the year
• Solutions lectures halved and replaced by
• Interactive lectures using EVS
• Regular online SATs replacing class tests
• Video-podcasts of course materials using BBC
  materials
• Group presentations supported by online
  micro-tasks

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A podcast example
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Hospitality outcomes

• Attendance at lectures improved
• Number of non-qualifying students reduced (from
  40 to 30)
• Average coursework mark rose from 47.8 to 60
• Not all down to video podcasts, but a
  contributing factor course will be run again
  next semester with more detailed evaluation

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Case Studies

• (2) Maureen Lister, University of Bologna
• Teaching English to Italian law students
• The Problem Traditional language teaching
  materials not authentic with little emotion or
  variation wanted to provide students with
  materials which were challenging and original and
  find a way of making them accessible and useable
  for teaching
• Solution Use suitable BBC archive material and
  allow students and teachers to annotate and save
  notes

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Project Pad
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Project Pad
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Pedagogical pluralism

• Other examples of Spoken Word content in use
• - BlackBoard sites
• - Blog sites
• - Facebook sites
• - Podcasts push channel traditional VLE
  access
• How to link up all this material?
• IR and web services?

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Future Developments

• Hope to move to automated systems to allow
  teachers and students to create their own
  podcasts
• Integration of annotation tools with Padova
  finding aid access to My Padova with
  favourites, notes and tags
• Need to find a way to show different types of
  users trusted experts
• More formal evaluation of tools in learning

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Conclusions

• Our users are keen to add value to existing
  digital audio and video content
• Repository and tools designed to be flexible and
  modular
• Web 2.0 technology is always changing learning
  outcomes are important, not technology

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Further Information

• Spoken Word Services
• http//www.spokenword.ac.uk
• Digital Libraries in the Classroom
• (including project videos)
• http//www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programm
  e_dlitc.aspx
• The Saltire Centre
• http//www.gcal.ac.uk/thesaltirecentre

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Our blog
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Contact

• Iain Wallace
• Digital Services Development Librarian
• E iain.wallace_at_gcal.ac.uk
• T 0141 273 1901
• W http//www.spokenword.ac.uk
• Questions?