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Depositing in JorumOpen Nicola Siminson Jorum Community Enhancement Officer. Session overview Introduction to Jorum Depositing into JorumOpen Things to consider Support available. What is Jorum?
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Depositing in JorumOpenNicola Siminson Jorum Community Enhancement Officer
Session overview • Introduction to Jorum • Depositing into JorumOpen • Things to consider • Support available
What is Jorum? • a FREE online service providing access to learning and teaching resources, contributed by staff in UK Universities and Colleges • a place to find, share and discuss learning and teaching resources • including OER! • two collections: • JorumUK • JorumOpen
The AdurCarers Project, Open University. • Collaborative writing: web2practice, JISC Netskills. • Reading Skills Tutorial - Julia Braham and Marion Bowman. • Making group-work work - Peter Hartley, LearnHigher. • Incorporating an understanding of poverty into assessments of children and their families - Colin Paton, SCIE. • Virtual Pain Manager - Barry Richards, University of Glamorgan.
“Publicising research-based open teaching and learning resources through sites like the HumBox and JorumOpen is a key way to demonstrate professional impact to a broad community.” Kate Borthwick, Project Manager, HumBox.
Depositing into JorumOpen • http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ • as a first-time depositor, you will need to create a short profile
Things to consider • files and links • Jorum Collection Development Policy: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/docs/pdf/CollectionDevPolicy2010.pdf • metadata • we will be making contextual help available • use keywords to supplement the “subject heading”, and to aid discoverability
More things to consider • bulk deposit options • content packages; RSS; Selenium • more information on the Jorum Community Bay • Technology section RSS Registration and Bulk Upload • Creative Commons – new versions being developed • version 2.0 UK: England and Wales
Current developments / future plans • a new visual identity for Jorum • Jorum roadmap • exploring quality assurance and peer review • a search widget – embeddable in VLEs
How we can help you • contact the Jorum Support team on support@jorum.ac.uk or call 0131 650 3032 • Jorum website: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/ • Jorum Update discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JORUM-UPDATE • follow the Jorum team on Twitter: http://twitter.com/JorumTeam - or use #jorum in your tweets • the OER infoKit: http://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/
How you can help us! • contact us to discuss bulk deposit methods • give us your feedback • tell us your Jorum stories • current stories on the Jorum Community Bay include a story on the “Skills for Scientists” UKOER project: http://tinyurl.com/sfsjorumstory