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The
changing role of Jorum: sharing using JorumOpen and JorumUK
As Open Educational
Resources (OER) increasingly become part of the landscape of learning and
teaching resources, Jorum has now opened up for the sharing of resources,
created under Creative Commons
(CC) licences, through its new collection JorumOpen.
JorumOpen -
released today - provides free access to a growing
collection of open educational resources, for all to benefit worldwide, via
Jorum’s trusted source of designated learning and teaching resources.
This latest collection contains and hosts a range of high quality resources,
and we encourage further deposit of open materials, to feature alongside
resources such as the entries submitted to the 2009
Jorum Learning and Teaching competition. We will also see further content
deposited via the UKOER Programme, which will be
tagged as ‘ukoer’.
The new Jorum Deposit Chooser will
guide you through a simple step-by-step process to help you determine which
Jorum collection is the most suitable for your needs.
Members of UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, using the UK Access
Management Federation to authenticate, can deposit - but anyone will be
able to search, browse and download the resources deposited into JorumOpen.
All material within JorumOpen will also be exposed to search engines such as Google later this year, further
enhancing the search and accessibility of these resources, and providing the
perfect platform to showcase your work and learn from the expertise of others.
Alongside the JorumOpen collection, Jorum’s existing collection – JorumUK
– will continue. JorumUK contains resources that their creators and
owners prefer to share only within the UK Higher and Further Education
community. This collection contains all resources deposited in Jorum prior to
2010, under the previous institutional licence: these require an institutional subscription
to deposit, search, browse and download resources.
Changes to the JorumUK collection will be made in spring 2010, which will see
the introduction of an additional licence – JorumEducationUK. This licence
will enable sharing across the UK Further and Higher Education community,
without an institutional subscription. Other new features set for release at
this time include a unified search - enabling users to search across all
resources held within both the JorumOpen and JorumUK collections, providing one
simple search.
Summer 2010 will see the introduction of a central deposit tool, allowing
depositors to access a single point to contribute resources automatically into
either collection.
To keep up-to-date with Jorum developments, join our JISCmail list, or look out
for announcements on the Jorum website.
Louise Egan
Communications Officer - Jorum Service
Email:
Web: http://www.jorum.ac.uk
Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and
support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Helping to build
a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching
materials, created by the community for the community.
You can also have your say and find out more about all aspects of sharing at
the
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