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The Mechanisms and Impact of Encouraging Community Engagement in Teaching Repositories

The Mechanisms and Impact of Encouraging Community Engagement in Teaching Repositories
The Mechanisms and Impact of Encouraging Community Engagement in Teaching Repositories
HumBox is a community repository for humanities-focused resources. It was created using a co-design process that revealed that for the repository to successfully support a community its users needed to have an identity in the repository, control of their own resources and lightweight communication tools. Now that HumBox has been running for over two years it is possible to reflect on these ideals and the tools that support them, and in this paper we present a survey of HumBox users that has discovered that the community tools were used to refine resources, encouraged engagement and led to a perceived improvement in pedagogic practices.
McSweeney, Patrick
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Borthwick, Kate
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Hargood, Charlie
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Millard, David
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Howard, Yvonne
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Borthwick, Kate
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Hargood, Charlie
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Millard, David
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Howard, Yvonne
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McSweeney, Patrick, Borthwick, Kate, Hargood, Charlie, Millard, David and Howard, Yvonne (2011) The Mechanisms and Impact of Encouraging Community Engagement in Teaching Repositories. Open Repositories 2011, Austen, Texas. (Submitted)

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HumBox is a community repository for humanities-focused resources. It was created using a co-design process that revealed that for the repository to successfully support a community its users needed to have an identity in the repository, control of their own resources and lightweight communication tools. Now that HumBox has been running for over two years it is possible to reflect on these ideals and the tools that support them, and in this paper we present a survey of HumBox users that has discovered that the community tools were used to refine resources, encouraged engagement and led to a perceived improvement in pedagogic practices.

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Submitted date: 28 February 2011
Additional Information: Event Dates: July 2011
Venue - Dates: Open Repositories 2011, Austen, Texas, 2011-07-01
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 272063
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/272063
PURE UUID: cedce1f7-3441-42f8-8860-7e308a9d31ac
ORCID for David Millard: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7512-2710

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Date deposited: 24 Feb 2011 15:15
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:59

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Author: Patrick McSweeney
Author: Kate Borthwick
Author: Charlie Hargood
Author: David Millard ORCID iD
Author: Yvonne Howard

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