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Total users accessing EQUELLA: over 8.5 million educators worldwide
Hundreds of EQUELLA instances exist in institutions all around the world
within a wide range of schools, universities, TAFEs, colleges, departments of
education, government agencies and corporate organisations.
Content Without Borders, our open access EQUELLA repository
now provides access to over one million items,
http://oer.equella.com/access/home.do
EQUELLA is being utilised as a strategic repository, often for K-20/K-12
across a number of states and provinces globally including USA: Florida,
North Carolina, Kentucky, Utah, New York; Australia: New South Wales,
Queensland, Tasmania; as well as Northern Ireland and Turkey.
In addition to the institutions granted access to EQUELLA via the state
or provincial deployments mentioned above, there are hundreds of other
organisations utilising EQUELLA everyday.
EQUELLA’s on-going commitment to interoperability standards such as IMS
(LTI, QTI), SCORM, METS, OAI-PMH, SHEX/MEX and others enables
EQUELLA to work within the environments deployed by many organisations.
Where does EQUELLA come from? Our software is developed in Tasmania, Australia and has been since Day 1!
What is EQUELLA?
What is
EQUELLA, our web-based digital repository provides one central
platform to deliver a diverse range of content for learning and
teaching, library, research, ICT and institutional governance.
Our global clients experience EQUELLA as a repository for many
different uses.
How are our clients utilising EQUELLA?
s EQUELLA?
Institution-wide Development for
Online Content
EQUELLA provides TAFE NSW with a shared digital
repository for the storage of teaching and learning,
research, media and library content.
EQUELLA has been integrated with each Institute’s
Learning Management System (LMS). Each TAFE
Institute runs a Moodle or Sakai LMS server that is
connected to one central EQUELLA server.
“An unexpected outcome with EQUELLA was the way
the repository supports the validation of assessment in
our entire institute, which enables all staff and students
across the whole of TAFE NSW to reap significant
benefits. Collaborating with other institutes enriched our
project, and the solution became a strong model for true
knowledge sharing.”
— TAFE NSW Staff
The new system now supports:
• over 12,000 courses
• in 130 campuses
• across the 10 Institutes
This customisable, flexible solution has facilitated the
development of high quality educational content that
can be accessed and utilised over 119 million teaching
hours, for potentially 25,000 educators and 480,000
students across the ten institutes.
TAFE NSW is one of the largest EQUELLA implementations in the world!
What our clients say about EQUELLA
“The implementation of EQUELLA to manage our
copyright materials has made life significantly easier for
our library staff. EQUELLA is a great way of ensuring
our students get access to essential material quickly and
efficiently.”
— Document Delivery Services, Coventry University
“The UEN regional repository, eMedia, is powered by EQUELLA
and is extending the availability and reach of educational
media in Utah. Every day over 2,000 educators access the
digital repository to download videos, podcasts, images and
teacher guides which aid effective instruction. EQUELLA makes
delivering this content easy and efficient.”
— Katie Garrett, Digital Media Specialist, Utah Education Network
“EQUELLA provides Charles Sturt University with the flexibility and
scalability that will allow us to properly document and provision
our resources online in a highly organised and accessible way. The
way EQUELLA is constructed means that staff with little or no
programming knowledge can use its wide feature set to create
advanced and highly structured collections without the need for the
programming or technical skills traditionally required to achieve this
level of fit for our organisation.”
—
Strategic Learning and Teaching Services Team, Charles
Extending the distribution of
Open Educational Resources
The Florida Orange Grove repository was developed by
The Florida Distance Learning Consortium, a network of
all 39 public and all 27 public post secondary institutions
in Florida with potential access by 230,000 educators and
approximately 2 million students. The Orange Grove contains
over 700 open access textbooks and 40,000 resources.
Visit The Orange Grove as a guest,
http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/
“The Orange Grove Digital Repository has provided K-20 institutions
throughout Florida a centralised location for finding and contributing quality
instructional resources, with EQUELLA providing a cost-effective, productive
and effective online solution”
— Robin Donaldson, Project Manager, The Orange Grove Digital Repository
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Florida Distance Learning Consortium developed Orange Groves Text Plus (OGT+)
through a partnership with the University Press of Florida.
The initiative makes quality, open access textbooks available to faculty and students
anywhere at no or low cost. Books may be downloaded for free or a commercial
“print on demand” book may be purchased for a modest cost through the repository.
Repository for research and teaching
Oxford Brookes University has implemented EQUELLA as its digital repository
solution to power its Research Archive and Digital Assets Repository (RADAR).
“EQUELLA offers a flexible way of managing, sharing and
showcasing research and teaching materials. It strengthens the
link between teaching and research, allowing the University to
make the most of its digital assets.”
— Rowena Rouse, RADAR Team Member, Oxford Brookes University
The Blended Repository for Content Collaboration provides:
• Increased academic involvement for the contribution of
resources by educators
• More efficient management and sharing of research and
teaching resources
• A multi-purpose archive that manages and stores over 1,500
research and teaching resources
• Content that is available at various levels, including open
access collections, such as the University’s research archive
and open educational resources
• Reduced costs through the efficient use and consolidation
of resources, applications and servers
Explore RADAR as a guest,
www.brookes.ac.uk/go/radar
An integrated eLearning environment
Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) have defined a clear and
compelling vision of the future of teaching and learning: eLearn.
eLearn is a single solution that incorporates EQUELLA, Moodle
and Wimba in a seamless integration, to deliver enterprise content
management, learning management, and collaborative tools.
“The implementation of EQUELLA as an integral component of eLearn has
enabled a seamless, integrated and collaborative platform to extend the
capabilities for teaching and learning at the Institute. Effective content management
and delivery to both educators and students at the Institute will ensure an efficient
and beneficial digital learning environment for all users.”
— CIT Learning Centre Team
The integration of EQUELLA and Moodle enables CIT to explore
new processes, discover, share and reuse content, and enhance
the teaching and learning experience of their institution.
Educators and students seamlessly pass between the two
systems, sharing content in ways never before possible.
CIT has more than doubled the number of objects in their repository to 57,000
Blended platform for academic assets
“RHUL sees EQUELLA as a storage warehouse that is going to
be at the heart of a content ecosystem, and without EQUELLA’s
integration capability that ecosystem would not exist because the
institution would not have as many opportunities to store data
once, in EQUELLA, and reuse it all over the place, including in
Moodle and the Web.”
— Head of Analysis and Design, Royal Holloway, University of London
A strategic objective of Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) was to
provide the University with a content platform for its academic assets that could
cope with a range of use cases to support teaching, learning and research.
Every term, an increasing number of researchers are requesting to use the
repository for digitisation projects, and extend the EQUELLA offering, by creating
and maintaining content and then providing that to different audiences via different
publishing channels.
The University is using EQUELLA to build a digital collections
service to support this research activity starting with the digital
management of old musical manuscripts. The manuscript
collection will enable a content package to be built, with images
of the manuscripts being contributed and stored in the repository,
allowing users to access the first collection of digitised content at
the University.
Repository for
diverse needs
At the University of Wollongong, the Graduate School of Medicine’s (GSM) course is organised around
93 clinical problems and a number of learning outcomes arranged in four themes: Medical Sciences,
Clinical Competencies, Personal and Professional Development, and Research and Critical Analysis.
EQUELLA was to become part of the GSM’s Online Learning Environment (OLE), designed to be an
easily reproducible integration of best-of-breed solutions to enable delivery of an integrated, problembased curriculum.
“EQUELLA’s metadata management and powerful
reports allow us to map content to our curriculum,
while its workflows let us control the quality of content
contributed. Students appreciate the ability to search
content throughout their course with various criteria.”
—
Professor John Bushnell, Professor of Medical Education
The GSM’s OLE is a reproducible solution, both within medical education and online learning.
Key highlights of the solution include:
• Enables quality learning
- Integrated, problem/outcomes-based learning
- Distributed multi-location and community based
- Instructor efficiency – rural clinical academic involvement
- Access for rural students serving rural communities
- Metadata provides clarity of learning outcomes
• Integrated best-of-breed solutions using recognised standards
• Not just a repository – finely integrated into a coherent OLE
Learning outcomes-based education
Since its establishment in 1929, Quinnipiac University has been
steadily building a large volume of learning assets.
The need for a content repository system became even more
critical as the university embarked upon a multi-year effort to
transition from a core curriculum to a learning outcomes-based
education system. This transformational shift would require
that Quinnipiac’s academic assets be identified and categorised
according to learning outcomes.
“EQUELLA will play an essential role in the formation of how we are
going to be using content within the classroom over the next generation
of students that will be graduating from Quinnipiac. We’re getting really
good responses so far from the academic community, and in particular
from the school of medicine and the health sciences.”
— Fred Tarca, CIO, Quinnipiac University
In early 2011, Quinnipiac selected the EQUELLA solution, white-labeled by the
institution as “GALAXY.”
Now, when the faculty use a piece of content within their course, they enter it as
an artifact into the EQUELLA system, labeling it as supporting a particular learning
outcome. Once entered into the system, the artifact can be retrieved and shared
among other faculty members for use in their courses. Through EQUELLA, the
university has been able to successfully store and organise all of its digital assets,
including photographs, videos clips and training materials.
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“TAFE Queensland, the technical and further education provider,
implemented EQUELLA to enable teachers across the network
of TAFE institutes to share valuable learning material with ease
in a variety of delivery modes and with the knowledge that the
resources were AQTF (Australia Quality Training Framework)
and Copyright compliant. This enables both beginning and
experienced teachers to focus on providing quality vocational
training experiences for students. From a system-wide
perspective, the benefit is realised through the reduced cost
of developing learning content by providing access to shared
course content within a single digital repository.”
– Lee Webster
A/Director TAFE Programs
Queensland VET Development Centre,
Training and Tertiary Education Queensland
Department of Education, Training and Employment, Australia
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