CaRILLO - Nicola Siminson/JorumOpen

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Jorum Find, Share, Discuss

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JorumOpen and IL: finding and sharing resources

Nicola Siminson Jorum Community Enhancement Officer

CaRILLO 3rd August 2010

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Session overview• introduction to Jorum

– the JorumOpen and JorumUK collections

• finding IL resources in JorumOpen• sharing YOUR resources

– …including reasons for sharing learning and teaching resources openly; and what to consider before you do

• current developments and future plans for Jorum


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What is Jorum?• a FREE online service providing access to learning and

teaching resources, contributed by staff in UK Universities and Colleges

• these resources can be shared, reused and repurposed• two Jorum collections:

– JorumOpen– JorumUK


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The JorumUK collection:• the collection for sharing within UK FE and HE

– houses all resources deposited in Jorum prior to 2010 – shared through an institutional licence– contains 2370 learning and teaching resources

• later in 2010: additional JorumEducationUK licence to be introduced– will enable sharing across UK FE and HE without the need for an

institutional subscription


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The JorumOpen collection:• contains OERs (Open Educational Resources):

– learning and teaching resources whose creators or owners have made them available for sharing under Creative Commons (CC) licences (http://creativecommons.org/)

– contains 6342 learning and teaching resources to date!

• exposed to search engines (e.g. Google)• plenty of guides, support materials and vidcasts available

on the Jorum website

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How do I choose?

To access the Jorum Deposit Chooser, click the Deposit button on any page of the Jorum website.

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Jorum is…• a place to find learning and teaching materials

– both in Jorum and elsewhere

• a place to share learning and teaching materials• a place to discuss views and exchange tools

– via the Jorum Community Bay http://community.jorum.ac.uk

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“Jorum stands as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials, supporting individuals, teaching teams, collaborative groups and communities in the development and sharing of resources. At the time of development Jorum was cutting edge in understanding the ways to and implications of sharing.”

Transformation through technology: Illustrating JISC's impact across two decades (JISC 2010)

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Jorum and the UKOER Programme• JorumOpen contains / points to all resources

from the UKOER Programme Pilot Phase• All resources deposited in JorumOpen

are tagged as #UKOER• Phase 2: 31st August 2010 (1 year)• Further information:

– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer.aspx– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2010/07/oersymposium.aspx


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• The Adur Carers Project, Open University.

• Collaborative writing: web2practice, JISC Netskills.

• Reading Skills Tutorial - Julia Braham and Marion Bowman.

• Making group-work work - Peter Hartley, LearnHigher.

• Incorporating an understanding of poverty into assessments of children and their families - Colin Paton, SCIE.

• Virtual Pain Manager - Barry Richards, University of Glamorgan.


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What sort of resources can I find in Jorum?• across all subject areas

– and generic resources!• single files

– documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, video, audio, animations,…

• content packages / “learning objects”; courseware• web links

– to resources held elsewhere• further information in the Jorum Collection Development

Policy: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/policies.html

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Finding IL resources in JorumOpen• demonstration


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Some reasons to share:• policy:

– “HEFCE has announced an initial £5.7 million of funding for pilot projects that will open up existing high-quality education resources from higher education institutions to the world.” HEFCE website, 14 October 2008.

• pragmatism;• to save time - ?

– “It’s becoming to me as [if] you are almost a negligent academic if you don’t go out and look for the OERs before you start developing things.” Terry Anderson, Professor & Canada Research Chair in Distance Education, Athabasca University (ALT-C 2009).

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Some more drivers and benefits to sharing

“Get comments and suggestions and improve my resources”

“Share good practice”

“Introduce some variety / get ideas”

“Free up time to focus on pedagogy rather than content creation”

“Access to publicly funded resources”

“Esteem amongst colleagues”

“Access engaging and attractive resources”

“Save time and money”

“Access to high-quality resources”

“Engage with the subject community”

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“Jorum can save us time. Using materials from Jorum means that we do not have to start from scratch and create resources ourselves. There is a wide variety of content so you never know what you might find.” Carolyn Groom, Learning Digital Services Librarian, Carnegie College.

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“Publicising research-based open teaching and learning resources through sites like the HumBox and JorumOpen is a key way to demonstrate professional impact to a broad community.” Kate Borthwick, Project Manager, HumBox.


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Sharing YOUR resources• demonstration


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Considerations prior to depositing:• clearing rights – and licensing• presentation of your resources

– output files– futureproofing

• file structure– consider including a readme file

• accessibility and usability– technical and pedagogical

• “shelf life”, versioning – and OERs• OER infoKit: http://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/

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Current developments and future plans:• repurposing resources vidcast• Jorum roadmap• new licensing options • a search widget – embeddable in VLEs• a new visual identity for Jorum• the Jorum Learning and Teaching

competition – vote now!


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In conclusion:• Open Educational Resources are becoming both more

prevalent - and more necessary• Jorum is a place to find and share OER – including

information literacy resources• Jorum can support and add value to open sharing:

– by enabling material to be shared, discovered and downloaded openly under Creative Commons licensing;

– by providing a trusted source of online learning and teaching resources;

– by increasing the visibility of these resources.


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Need support?• Contact the Jorum Support team on

[email protected] or call 0131 650 3032• Jorum website – “Support” tab:

– FAQs; JorumOpen and JorumUK guides– read more about the JorumOpen and JorumUK collections:

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/changing_jorum.htm

• Jorum Update list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JORUM-UPDATE

• Jorum Community Bay includes the JorumOpen vidcasts– available at: http://community.jorum.ac.uk


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References:• Anderson, T. (2009) ALT-C 2009 Keynote speech. Speech presented

at the 2009 conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), Manchester.

• HEFCE (2008) Opening up resources for learning. Available at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/news/hefce/2008/os.htm (Accessed: 28 May 2010).

• JISC (2010) Transformation through technology: Illustrating JISC's impact across two decades. [Online]. Available at: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/generalpublications/2010/jiscimpact2010.aspx (Accessed: 28 May 2010).