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Discovering OER:
Jorum – OER for all
Nicola Siminson
Jorum Community Enhancement Officer
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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;
• 2 Jorum collections:
– JorumOpen: access to OERs available under Creative Commons
licensing;
– JorumUK: resources for sharing within UK FE and HE ‐ through
an institutional licence.
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Jorum and the UKOER Programme:
• All resources deposited in JorumOpen tagged as #UKOER;
• JorumOpen contains and points to all project outputs
from the UKOER Programme:
– keyword search on "ukoer": 4318;
– total number of resources in JorumOpen: 6289.
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• The Adur Carers Project, Open University. • Making group‐work work ‐ Peter Hartley, LearnHigher.
• Collaborative writing: web2practice, JISC Netskills. • Incorporating an understanding of poverty into assessments
of children and their families ‐ Colin Paton, SCIE.
• Reading Skills Tutorial ‐ Julia Braham and Marion Bowman.
• Virtual Pain Manager ‐ Barry Richards, University of
Glamorgan.
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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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Jorum developments over the last year:
• a new system:
– “Submitted the 5 guides (video & print) we've produced [for the
JISC web2practice project] so far. The process was surprisingly easy and
quick!” (Steve Boneham, Netskills);
• reduced metadata profile;
• bulk deposit methods developed (e.g. RSS);
• JorumOpen is exposed to search engines (e.g. Google);
• content package preview;
• a unified search tool.
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Future plans:
• new licensing options:
– JorumEducationUK;
• a search widget – embeddable in VLEs;
• Jorum is supporting projects in the next round of funding;
• a new visual identity for Jorum.
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In conclusion:
• Jorum is the place to find and share OERs;
• 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
support@jorum.ac.uk or call 0131 650 3032.
• Jorum website – “Support” tab:
– FAQs; JorumOpen and JorumUK guides.
• 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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