EQUELLA ® C L I E N T S O F T H E w w w.equella.com W O R L D EQUELLA d C s o f t he w t n or lie l 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. Notes Learn how our clients worldwide are using EQUELLA visit our website: www.equella.com E VERY CLIENT E XPERIENCE WITH EQUELL A IS UNIQUE “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 F I N D O U T M O R E AT w w w.equella.com ©2014 Pearson. All rights reserved.
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