An Introduction to JORUM Ryan Hargreaves Technical Support and Training Officer

1. An Introduction to JORUM Ryan Hargreaves Technical Support and Training Officer

2. 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”

3. 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 L&T 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

4. What is JORUM? Phase 1 - The Background August 2004 till July 2005 • Research project JORUM+ commenced October 2002, part of JISC’s 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

5. 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 R&D 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

6. 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

7. Collation of Materials

8. 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 What Materials will JORUM Hold?

9. 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

10. 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

11. How will JORUM work? JORUM Contributor JORUM JORUM User

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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)

15. 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

16. Further Information Website – www.jorum.ac.ukEmail – support@jorum.ac.uk Thank you!