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JorumOpen – a sneak preview

Nicola Siminson Jorum Community Enhancement Officer

nicola.siminson@manchester.ac.uk

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Jorum Community Bay - update• http://community.jorum.ac.uk/ • aims to support knowledge sharing and discussion about

all aspects of sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching resources– beginners and experts

• Sharing Resources OER OER discussion forum– …with link to Jorum OER Deposit Tool – you can deposit

resources now!– http://deposit.jorum.ac.uk/

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Testing DSpace for JorumOpen• functionality and interface

– deposit workflow (single files, content packages and links)– selecting Creative Commons licences– searching (basic and advanced) – general user experiences and expectations

• testing phase Mon. 12th – Fri. 23rd October• 7 UKOER projects are helping us!

– 3 Institutional, 1 Individual and 3 Subject strand projects• time-limited accounts; resources will not be transferred – this is a

pre-service release of JorumOpen• results to be reviewed by the Jorum Technical team; enhancements

to be factored in to further releases

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Jorum Elluminate session 17.9.09• link to the recording:https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-09-

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Contact details• Nicola Siminson Jorum

Community Enhancement Officer– email: nicola.siminson@manchester.ac.uk– phone: 0161 275 0155

• Jorum Helpdesk– e-mail: support@jorum.ac.uk– phone: 0131 650 3302