UKOER Phase-3 Start-Up Frank C. Manista [e-mail]

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UKOER Phase-3 Start-Up Frank C. Manista
frank.manista_at_manchester.ac.uk

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• FREE online service providing access to learning
  and teaching resources
• 12,500 resources, licensed under Creative
  Commons
• shared mainly by the UK HE and FE community
• JISC-funded run by Mimas
• providing a trusted source of online learning and
  teaching resources
• helping you to manage and disseminate your
  resources
• increasing the visibility of these resources with
  some evidence that your google ranking increases
  by virtue of placing your resources into Jorum

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• The Jorum Team
• Jackie Carter Laura Shaw Louise Egan
  Nicola Siminson
• Yogesh Patel Steve Cook Matt Ramirez
  Frank Manista
• Mark van Harmelen Dave Workman

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• Aims Objectives
• Increase the amount of content in and
  discoverable through Jorum
• Improve the discoverability of content
• Develop the infrastructure to support Jorums
  mission
• Engage with the teaching and learning community
  including developers to enable the above
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• Jorum
• Focuses on Open Educational Resources (OER)
• Works collaboratively with individuals,
  institutions and subject communities to support
  sharing and showcasing of OERs, as highlighted in
  the Collaborate to Compete Report
• Works to increase deposit of OER for those UK
  universities, colleges and subject communities
  that elect to share through Jorum , developing
  comprehensive and quality content
• Works collaboratively to improve discoverability
  of content both held within Jorum and hosted
  elsewhere, fostering an ecology of OER reuse
• Contributes to the body of evidence needed to
  seek to prove the transformative potential of
  OERs through demonstration and good practice not
  rhetoric
• Focuses on UK initially but will engage with the
  growing OER initiatives in EU and overseas to
  help JISC raise the profile of its OER activity
  and investment

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• Jorums vision
• Working in collaboration to build an enabling
  infrastructure for sharing and discovering OERs
• http//mimas.ac.uk/news/2011/05/jorum-listens/
• towards a new vision where Jorum becomes a
  shared national service for discovering OERs that
  also fosters the ecology of reuse of those
  resources across the sector and beyond.
• A Jorum Strategy is in preparation for 2011-2012
• Jorum Vision for 2011-2012
• Jorum is a shared national service for
  discovering open educational resources that also
  fosters the ecology of reuse of those resources
  it is therefore pivotal to the achievement of
  excellence in learning and teaching.
• Jorum Mission for 2011-2012
• Jorum will be a repository of open resources that
  is relevant to and used by the teaching
  community.
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• The Jorum User Group(s)
• As we move forward and away from the transition
  period we are keen to get more
• users involved, along with the steering
  committee, key stakeholders in the development
  and success of Jorum.
• We are putting together two distinct but
  inter-related user groups
• The Power User Group This group would include
  those users who routinely use Jorum, are uniquely
  aware of what it has to offer, understand its
  processes and problems, have been depositing
  resources into Jorum for some time, and are
  involved in constructive dialogues to improve the
  service.
• The Occasional User Group As the name suggests,
  these are people who may be relatively new to
  Jorum they would recognise the service as
  potentially something valuable, but their
  experiences are limited, and they may not
  necessarily see the full use-value in any
  repository of learning resources.
• We are planning on inviting members of the OER
  community, academics, and others to join one of
  these two groups in the next few weeks.

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• We have a new steering group as well,
  representing a number of institutions and
  organisations, including
• JISC
• The University of Leeds
• CETIS
• British Universities FilmVideo Council
• UKOLN
• Northumbria University
• John Rylands University Library (Manchester)
• HEA
• HedTek

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Jorum is working on two collaborative pilots
The Institutional Pilot emphasising what 8
specific HEs and FEs could benefit from with
stronger connections to a national repository
The Subject Pilot Similar to the above, but with
the emphasis on subject categoriesThese two
will feed directly into our development of a new
Featured Collections section on the website (and
our business case).

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• The Jorum widgets
• Search
• User
• Subject
• Jorum widget builder
• http//www.jorum.ac.uk/jorumwidgets

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• Bulk Upload Mechanism
• RSS (3 limitations)
• Jorum can only bulk-upload items that consist of
  single resource files
• Jorum can only bulk-upload items that consist of
  single resource files
• the Jorum helpdesk needs to be involved in the
  process of bulk uploading
• We are working on a validator which will do this
  automatically

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• According to Tom Caswell, open education policy
  associate for the Washington community college
  board in Washington,
• D.C.,
• the OER push does not just save money for
  students, but in fact might promote greater
  academic engagement. 

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• Jorums collection consists of 12,500 resources
• Of these, 9656 have the tag UKOER!
• We are currently working with the US Learning
  Registry
• We are routinely receiving requests from UK and
  international organisations who want to work with
  us

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Stories
Being in Jorum means that your resources are
more visible in Google searches. There is also a
wealth of quality resources within Jorum already,
so if youre going to deposit, have a look, and
you may find something you can take home with you
too! Katy Jordan, Plant Sciences Pedagogy
Project, Cambridge
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Stories

• The main advantage of Jorum is that it helps
  us further disseminate our resources the
  more publicity, the better!
• (Peter Hartley, Professor of Education
  Development, University of Bradford)

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Stories

• The Jorum Competition

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• Keeping informed and in touch
• contact Jorum Support
  support_at_jorum.ac.uk
• join the Jorum Update discussion list
  http//www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JORUM-UPDATE
• read and comment on our Jorum team blog
  http//www.jorum.ac.uk/blog
• join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter
• http//www.facebook.com/JorumTeam
• http//twitter.com/JorumTeam

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• Useful links
• Jorum Licensing guide http//www.jorum.ac.uk/help
  /guides/licensing
• Jorum Collection Development Policy
  
  http//www.jorum.ac.uk/policies/jorum-collection-d
  evelopment-policy
• Creative Commons http//www.creativecommons.org
• Mimas http//mimas.ac.uk/
• JISC http//www.jisc.ac.uk/
• OER infoKit https//openeducationalre
  sources.pbworks.com/w/page/ 24836480/Home
• UKOER Programme http//www.jisc.ac.uk/oer
• Synthesis and Evaluation report
• https//oersynth.pbworks.com/w/page/29688444/Pilot
  -Phase-Synthesis-and-Evaluation-Report