Collaborative Working in UK Learning and Teaching Projects

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An Introduction to JORUM Ryan Hargreaves Technica
l Support and Training Officer
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What is JORUM?

• The Vision
• a free online service building a community of
  sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and
  teaching resources for UK HE and FE institutions

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Why a 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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What is JORUM?

• Phase 1 - The Background

August 2004 till July 2005

• Research project JORUM commenced October 2002,
  part of JISCs Exchange for Learning Programme
  (Phase 1)
• Provided 2 repository systems for use of Phase 1
  content-producing projects intraLibrary and
  Xtensis
• Provided support for project and captured their
  requirements for development in the research
  systems
• Undertook requirements exercise with the wider
  community in 2003 and reported January 2004
• Completed procurement exercise (under EU rules)
  July 2004
• Selected intraLibrary from Intrallect Ltd
• Started JORUM Service Set-up in August 2004

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What is JORUM?

• Phase 2 - The Present

October 2002 till July 2004

• Undertaking work necessary to set up the service
• Continuing work from Phase 1 in RD areas
• Liaison with and support for X4L Phase 1 projects
• Now also supporting X4L Phase 2 projects
• Trialling infrastructure for JORUM Licensing
  Model
• Trialling metadata profiles
• Watches on other repository systems, open source
  systems, technical infrastructure/landscape,
  digital rights management and preservation
• Legal responsibilities as service providers

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What is JORUM?

• Phase 3 - The Service

August 2005 till July 2008

• JORUM will be a service-in-development, similar
  to other data centre services
• 24/7 service delivery and data management
  services
• Athens authentication
• user support
• training
• helpdesk etc
• Key difference will be in having a Contributor,
  as well as a User, Service
• Deposit Licence for JORUM Contributor
• Repository Licence Agreement for JORUM User
• F/HEIs can contribute or use or both

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Collation of Materials
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What Materials will JORUM Hold?

• Simple learning and teaching resources
• Excel spreadsheet with data for lab exercise
• Word document with lesson plan, or schedule of
  work
• Images
• Powerpoint presentations
• More complex materials
• 3D Flash animations illustrating complex concepts
  e.g. chemical, geological etc
• Learning objects, containing a number of files,
  some of which may provide student interactivity
• Virtual objects
• Files that contain a reference to materials on
  the web

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From Where?

• 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 License

• 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

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How will JORUM work?
JORUM Contributor
JORUM
JORUM User
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JORUM User

• Register
• Free service
• Login
• Athens-authenticated
• Search
• Browse, basic and advanced searches
• Preview
• Download
• Single files or content packages
• Reuse
• Repurpose
• Institutions will nominate 1 site representative
  and 1 technical support representative
• Helpdesk services, training and support will be
  available

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JORUM Contributor

• Create
• 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)
• Contribute
• Have to be willing to share with UK F/HE
• Catalogue
• Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is working in
  partnership with JORUM to provide cataloguing
  services

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Licensing and Subscriptions

• End User access
• Access via institution subscription (No fee)
• Print based subscription licence
• Athens authenticated
• Terms and conditions at login
• Contribution
• JORUM deposit print based licence
• Institutional licence, not individual
• 3rd party acknowledgement in metadata (ODRL)

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JORUM Developments

• 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

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Further Information
Website www.jorum.ac.ukEmail
support_at_jorum.ac.uk
Thank you!