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Sarah Currier, Jorum Service Manager CETIS Conference 2013: Open Practice and OER Sustainability Birmingham, England, 12 March 2013 The Art of the Possible: Infrastructure for Sustainability mimas.ac.u k jorum.ac.u k

The Art of the Possible: Infrastructure for Sustainability

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Presentation by Sarah Currier, Jorum Service Manager at Mimas, University of Manchester, as part of the CETIS Conference 2013 session on Open Practice and OER Sustainability, Birmingham, England, 12 March 2013. This brief presentation covers new developments at the Jorum national open educational resources (OERs) service, funded by Jisc for UK post-16 education, and its plans for contributing to a sustainable OER infrastructure.

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Sarah Currier, Jorum Service Manager

CETIS Conference 2013:

Open Practice and OER SustainabilityBirmingham, England, 12 March 2013

The Art of the Possible: Infrastructure for Sustainability

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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JorumA National Service for Sharing Open Educational Resources

• Jorum is a UK national OER service to UK post-16 education, funded by Jisc.

• Anyone in UK post-16 education can share their CC-licensed OERs via Jorum.

• Others with OERs that may be of use to UK post-16 education can share too.

• Anyone in the world can find, see, download and use OERs hosted by Jorum.

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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JorumA National Service for Sharing Open Educational Resources

• Jorum is a UK national OER service to UK post-16 education, funded by Jisc.

• Anyone in UK post-16 education can share their CC-licensed OERs via Jorum.

• Others with OERs that may be of use to UK post-16 education can share too.

• Anyone in the world can find, see, download and use OERs hosted by Jorum.

co-funding and

co-invention are

our future.

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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How will Jorum support sustainability for OER?Two-pronged approach:

• As part of Jorum Core: Jorum Reporting and API - supporting all users with measuring, analysing and reporting on the impact of their OERs.

• Co-funding and Co-invention: Jorum Powered - cost-effective options for educational organisations and communities in managing & promoting OERs.

co-funding and

co-invention are

our future.

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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Coming soon: Jorum Usage Data (with API)Let’s take a look: http://beta.jorum.ac.uk/search

* For those using the presentation after:- Perform a search- Optionally, narrow your search with the faceted browse buttons- Click the Report button …- Click the API tab to look at that …

co-funding and

co-invention are

our future.

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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Jorum Powered: options for your OERs• Jorum Powered offers three options to help you deliver a customised OER

service to your user community.• The first two are fully managed and delivered by the Jorum team.• The third offers support to help you in building your own customised interface

onto Jorum. • They all give your users access to the full Jorum collection of OERs.

co-funding and

co-invention are

our future.

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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Option 1: A Jorum Sub-site - we can do it all for

you!A Jorum Sub-site is a complete repository solution, allowing you to manage your content, workflows and users, with flexible customisation and branding. We can create and maintain an OER repository for you, enabling you to focus on your resources and community engagement. And your repository will give your community access to the full wealth of Jorum content.E.g.: Re:Source – a Jorum Sub-site serving Scotland’s colleges sector.co-funding and

co-invention are

our future.

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Option 2: A Jorum Window - showcase your OERsA Jorum Window, branded and tailored to your needs, can showcase your institution or community's OER, digital media and related initiatives e.g. your blog or iTunesU feed. The Jorum team can build this for you, enabling you to focus on developing and showing off your resources.- Based on Jorum Beta technology for enhanced discovery and reporting.- Sample wireframe here.

co-funding and

co-invention are

our future.

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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Option 3: The Jorum API SupportIf you’re a developer, or you have developers within your community or

institution, you can use the Jorum API to build customised web tools and

services that enable you to expose Jorum resources and data within your own

web presence. The API is available to the community at no charge; however if

you need support please contact the Jorum team.

co-funding and

co-invention are

our future.

mimas.ac.ukjorum.ac.uk

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Jorum: http://www.jorum.ac.uk Jorum Powered: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/powered Jorum Beta: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/blog/post/56/jorum-just-got-a-whole-lot-beta Sarah Currier (Jorum Service Manager): [email protected] Skilton (Jorum Business Development Manager): [email protected] mimas.ac.uk

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