The JORUM Learning Materials Repository

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The JORUM Learning Materials Repository

Dr Jackie Carter JORUM Service-in-Development
Manager at MIMAS Jackie.Carter_at_manchester.ac.uk,
44 (0)161 275 6725
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JORUM Overview

• Funded under JISCs Digital Repositories
  Programme JORUM represents part of the JISC
  vision towards a national network of federated
  repositories for teaching, learning and research.
  
• JORUM is a collaborative venture in UK Higher and
  Further Education (H/FE) to collect and share
  learning and teaching materials, allowing their
  reuse and repurposing.
• The service-in-development is run jointly between
  the EDINA and MIMAS national data centres based
  at the Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester
  respectively.

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JORUM History

• Oct 2002 Jul 2004 Development Project
  exploring the need for and requirements of a
  national repository
• Jan 2003 Dec 2003 Undertook requirements
  gathering exercise prior to procurement
• Jan 2004 - Jul 2004 Completed procurement
  exercise under EU rules
• Jul 2004 Selected Intrallects
  intraLibrary as the repository system
• Aug 2004 Jul 2005 Building the infrastructure
  needed to provide a service
• Aug 2005 Jul 2008 Developing a service
  framework and providing support includes RD

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JORUM Service-in-Development

• JORUM Contributor Putting content in
• Allows colleges and universities to deposit
  learning and teaching materials. This launched in
  Nov 2005, to build up content before the launch
  of JORUM User. Supported by a JORUM Workflow.
• JORUM User Taking content out
• Provides teaching and support staff with access
  to the materials themselves.
• RD
• An ongoing research and development strand will
  run in parallel with the JORUM service

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JORUM Support

• The website provides information, news, guidance
  on registration and log-in, and a range of useful
  materials
• e.g. Documentation and promotional materials
  supporting the 2 strands.
• The JORUM team provides training events and
  demonstrations of the system where required.
• JORUM provides 24/7 system access and helpdesk
  assistance during office hours. Users will
  benefit from management of their data and support
  services at the data centres.
• Contributors benefit from legal security,
  authenticated protection of their content,
  cataloguing assistance to attach metadata and
  workflow functionality.

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JORUM Contributor- Putting content in

• Have to be willing to share with UK F/HE
• JORUM will host materials that have been publicly
  funded and also materials that have been
  developed within/between institutions.
• Learning Resources
• single assets (documents, images, diagrams) to
  comprehensive learning objects (interactive units
  made up of several elements e.g. 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)
• Resource Discovery Network (RDN) is working in
  partnership with JORUM to provide cataloguing
  services

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JORUM Deposit Licence

• Print-based, signed by institution, grants
  liberal permissions
• www.jorum.ac.uk/contributors/cregister/index.html
• Contributors grant non-exclusive, royalty-free
  licence to use Licensed Materials for Educational
  (non-commercial) Purposes
• Aggregate, annotate, excerpt and modify
• Search, retrieve, display and download
• Save, print
• Incorporate into learning environments compile
  into study packs
• Promotional purposes

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JORUM Workflow
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JORUM User - Taking content out

• FREE service, will be Athens-authenticated
  (Shibboleth in time)
• Institutions sign up to the service via JISC
  Collections
• Available to teaching staff from UK F/HE
  institutions
• 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
• Institutions will nominate 1 site representative
  and 1 technical support representative
• JORUM Support a key element

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Searching in JORUM
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Research Development

• Current
• Technical Infrastructure /Landscape and fit with
  JISC IE and eFramework
• Expanding the JORUM licensing model
• Metadata Watch, including automated metadata
  systems
• Review of cataloguing/workflow model
• Preservation/long-term retention of materials
• Cultural change

• Future
• Technical DRM solution
• Views onto JORUM
• Use of JORUM objects in mobile learning
• Impact and summative evaluations
• JORUM and e-Commerce

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