RADAR

Directorate of Learning Resources

What is RADAR?

R esearch

A rchive

D igital

A sset

R epository

  • Institutional repository for Oxford Brookes,
    based on Equella software

  • More than 3000 items: a blended repository of
    teaching and research

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Directorate of Learning Resources

  • 2007/8 JISC Circle project
  • Autumn 2008 chance meeting with Coventry University
  • December 2008 purchase Equella 4.0
  • October 2009 RADAR launch
  • 2012 4.1 integration with Moodle

Background

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What’s in RADAR?

Oxford Brookes University research

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What’s in RADAR?

Teaching materials

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What’s in RADAR?

Photos of University events

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What’s in RADAR?

Cartoons by University graphics team

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What’s in RADAR?

Video tutorials for students

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What’s in RADAR?

Course “taster” materials (OER)

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What’s in RADAR?

Olympics teaching materials (OER)

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Directorate of Learning Resources

1. Easy to customise Equella interface for different collections, virtual folders etc

2. Gives control for us to create metadata schema/collections

Successes

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Directorate of Learning Resources

3. Integration good :
(RSS, profiles, pedagogic research, Moodle blocks)

http://www.chc.brookes.ac.uk/dr-eike-adams

Successes

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Directorate of Learning Resources

1. Multiple changes to HE systems in recent years

2. Management need better statistics on the student learning experience, e.g. learning analytics

Challenges

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Directorate of Learning Resources

Questions?

Rowena Rouse
RADAR-repository services development manager
rrouse@brookes.ac.uk

Steve Burholt
E-learning systems developer
srburholt@brookes.ac.uk


www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar

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