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EdShare update session given at the ALTC Online Winter Conference 2017. Brief introduction to EdShare and its key features and our community. Information on aspects we are currently working - lists feature which will enable resources to be contextualised and presented as Modules or Lesson plans as needed. The same feature will support user generated playlist. This presentation also covers the launch and future intentions of edshare.ac.uk which will act a central access point for all-things EdShare

Slides from presentation given at the eLearning Symposium conference at University of Southampton in January 2019

Slides from 5 minute lightning talk given at OER17, London. The presentation was recorded and is available via the conference website - see link shared. Presentation starts at 12 minutes in. "This lightning talk will describe the open source OER solution ‘EdShare’. The open content platform which is running a number of successful OER sites in the HEI community including edShare@GCU, EdShare Soton, eShare, Humbox, LanguageBox and more. The platform, which originated from a Jisc funded institutional exemplars project in 2008, is now a stable and fully supported solution available from the University of Southampton enterprise group to support the sharing and engagement with OERs and OEP. The platform is based on the open content system EPrints, and has been heavily influenced by web 2.0 sharing sites. This lightning talk will summarise existing key features of the platform including streamlined submission, user community profiles, inline preview support, shareable editing rights, dissemination routes. Details will also be included on the future direction of EdShare and how you can be involved in the shaping the development roadmap."

Slides from presentation given at ALTC2019- University of Edinburgh. Covering the recent growth of the EdShare network of digital content platforms for sharing educational materials and will focus on the recent development of the EdShareHUB – a community resource harnessing a distributed growing collection of over 8000 open teaching and learning materials.

Slides from presentation given at OER17, London. The presentation talks about the need for well designed digital spaces which consider the needs for OERs and OEP. It also sets out how EdShare is being used by a growing community of institutions and subject specific communities.

Presentation slides used in my online webinar session at ALTC 2016 Online Winter Conference. Providing an introduction to EdShare, the open source OER sharing platform from the University of Southampton. Discussion around its core features as well as the future development roadmap. Link to webinar recording will be added shortly.

With an early focus on achieving a critical mass of released open educational content, challenges of how resources can be found by beneficiaries has been highlighted as a major issue. As we move forward further research and investigation is required to understand the most effective approaches of reaching out to and engaging a globally dispersed population of education users. In 2014 I conducted a small scale scoping study into the discoverability strategies identified as being used by higher education institutions releasing OERs in the UK. This was mapped against a body of literature on our understanding of user behaviour for online resource discovery and the technologies available to support this to identify trends and gaps as opportunities for improvements. Please note this report was not originally written for publication. I hope however it is of value to the open education community and will act as a starting point for further research in this area.

Update on the work undertaken by EPrints team at University of Southampton (EPrints Services) to migrate the OER repository solution 'EdShare' to the latest EPrints 3.3 core and setting out areas for the solution to continue to develop and embrace ethos of open education to reach a global community of educators, students and self-learners. Presentation given at 11th International Open Repositories conference in Dublin (OR2016).

This presentation is based around a conference keynote presentation developed in April 2013.