Introduction to JORUM

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Introduction to JORUM
MIMAS Open Forum Manchester, 29 June 2005
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Presenters

• Michael Dodds, JORUM Outreach Officer
• Michael.Dodds_at_manchester.ac.uk, 0161 275 6079
• Ryan Hargreaves, JORUM Training and Support
  Officer
• Ryan.Hargreaves_at_manchester.ac.uk, 0161 275 0609

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Overview

• JORUM is a JISC-funded collaborative venture in
  UK Higher and Further Education to collect and
  share learning and teaching materials, allowing
  their reuse and repurposing. JORUM stands as a
  national statement of the importance of creating
  interoperable, sustainable materials.
• The service will be jointly run between the EDINA
  and MIMAS national data centres
• Service in Development JORUM Contributor and
  User

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Background Why have a JISC repository?

• Provides long-term retention for publicly funded
  outputs
• Will take learning/educational/training materials
  and staff development/teaching support materials
• Accepts materials from publicly funded projects
  or departmental projects within institutions
• Supports staff involved in LT in the UK,
  provided they are willing to share their content
  with colleagues around the UK
• Promotes sharing, reuse and repurposing of
  content
• Stands as a national statement of importance
  attached by the funding councils to the
  importance of sharing

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JORUM Service-in-Development will comprise 2
services

• JORUM Contributor allows colleges and
  universities to share learning and teaching
  materials with one another.
• This will launch before JORUM User to build up
  content and will begin as soon as possible
• JORUM User provides access to the materials
  themselves.
• Other areas of work RD - A new research and
  development strand will run in parallel with the
  JORUM service

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JORUM Contributor

• JORUM will host materials that have been publicly
  funded and also materials that have been
  developed within institutions.
• Learning Resources single assets (documents,
  images, diagrams) to comprehensive learning
  objects (interactive units made up of several
  elements such as images, text and self-assessment
  exercises)
• Teaching Resources supporting teaching staff in
  doing their job (e.g. tutor guides, lesson plans,
  schemes of work and staff development materials)
• Have to be willing to share with UK F/HE
• Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is working in
  partnership with JORUM to provide cataloguing
  services

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Sources of materials for JORUM

• X4L Phase 1 project teams
• X4L Phase 2 project teams
• HE Generic Centre
• HE Academy Subject Centres
• HE Academy Centres of Excellence in Teaching and
  Learning (CETLs)
• JISC Distributed e-Learning projects
• JISC e-Pedagogies Programme
• Other JISC services e.g. Digital Curation Centre
• Have been approached by various organisations,
  project teams, consortia and institutions around
  the UK

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JORUM Deposit Licence

• Contributing institution is the Licensor, HEFCE
  is the Licensee
• JORUM Deposit Licence - print-based,
  institutionally signed by institution
• Contributors grant HEFCE non-exclusive,
  royalty-free, licence to use Licensed Materials
  for Educational (non-commercial) Purposes
• Excerpt, Annotate, Aggregate and Modify
• Search, retrieve, display and download
• Save, print
• Incorporate into learning environments compile
  into study packs
• Promotional purposes
• Licensor (institution) indemnifies HEFCE against
  damages, liabilities, infringements arising out
  of the content

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JORUM User

• Free service, Athens-authenticated, available to
  teaching staff who can access to the shared
  repository of resources
• Able to find, preview, download, reuse and
  repurpose materials for use with learners in
  their institution
• Also a collection of teaching support, staff
  development and case study materials
• JORUM Repository Licence Agreement will be
  available prior to launch date via service
  website
• Institutions will nominate 1 site representative
  and 1 technical support representative
• Helpdesk services, training and support will be
  available

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Repository Licence Agreement

• The Licensor is HEFCE, the Licensee is the
  Institution signing it
• Similar agreement to existing JISC service
  agreements tried, tested and watertight
• JORUM User will be a free service
• Liberal permissions to use the learning and
  teaching materials

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Possible Future Research Areas

• Technical Infrastructure/Landscape and fit with
  JISC IE and ELF
• Expanding the JORUM licensing model
• Technical DRM solution
• Metadata Watch, including automated metadata
  systems
• Review of cataloguing/workflow model
• Preservation/long-term retention of materials
• Cultural change
• Use of JORUM by students
• Use in mobile learning
• Commercial materials
• Continuing support for X4L Phase 2