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“Pushing the Jorum”

… ‘opening up’ to meet changing agenda

Peter Burnhill & Jackie CarterJorum Co-Directors

JISC / CNI Conference, Belfast, July 2008JISC / CNI Conference, Belfast, July 2008

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Presentation Overview

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

>1. Introduction to Jorum

• What it is and how it came about • What it does and what it contains

• Examples of UK learning materials

2. Understanding change; looking to the future • Changing environment

• Increasing confidence in ‘open’ model • Opportunities and challenges in the OER agenda

3. Planning an effective national service• New services: going ‘open’

• JorumOpen / JorumEducationUK

• Support for existing & licensed material• JorumPlus

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UK funding councils for HE & FE

Content, Tools &

Infrastructure

JISC Sub-CommitteesJISC Collections

NDCs acting as two platforms for network-level services as part of JISC Integrated Information Environment

research, learning & teaching in UK universities & colleges

UK Research Councils

National Data Centres

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jorum

\ 'jo-r-*m, 'jo.r-\ n

[perhaps from Joram

“ … brought with him vessels of silver" (2 Samuel 8:10 - AV)] :

a large drinking vessel or its contents

Brewers Phrase & Fable hypertext Webster Interface

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began as ‘keep-safe’ for publicly-funded outputs and content developed in projects at institutions

a support project within Exchange for Learning (X4L) Programme

a ‘service in development’

an early ‘deliverable’ won a prize!

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

how Jorum came about

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began as ‘keep-safe’ for publicly-funded outputs and

content developed in projects at institutions

a support service within X4L Programme

re-used and re-purposed as JISC national repository

to promote sharing, reuse and repurposing of

learning materials between institutions

had to tackle IPR and legal issues

HEFCE decided to be the Sub-Licensor

successfully launched two user services in 2005/6 Jorum Contributor - putting stuff in

Jorum User - getting stuff out

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

how Jorum came about

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… a bowl, a drinking vessel (or its contents) to be shared

… an online repository of learning materials

• for deployment within institution VLEs• Virtual Learning Environments

• and within teaching practice

Uses open standards

Jorum uses IMS Content Packages and IEEE LOM metadata for the content, so that the material can be re-used and re-purposed

Jorum uses an application of IntraLibrary (from Intrallect)

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

Jorum is therefore …

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also a catalyst for effective collaboration between:

1. learning technologists & tutors • across universities and colleges

2. JISC and communities of use it serves• across 3 JISC sub-committees

• Learning & Teaching• Integrated Information Environment• Content & Services

3. two JISC national data centres, EDINA & Mimas• working closely as a team with Centre for Educational

Technology & Interoperability Standards (CETIS)

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

Jorum is therefore …

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Jorum Today, as national repository for learning materials

JorumContributor

‘putting content in’

JorumUser

‘getting content out’

‘keep-safe’

= Two Services + ‘Keep-safe’ mandate + Jorum R&D

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Single files

Content Packages / Learning Objects

Virtual Objects

Text documents, Spread Sheets, PowerPoints, Images, Video, Audio, Flash Animations

Bundling learning resources together with metadata. Content can be moved between programs, facilitating easier delivery, reuse and sharing of materials.

Jorum can catalogue and point to resources stored elsewhere (e.g. a licensed service at EDINA, Mimas or elsewhere)

A variety of content

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Statistics

June 2008

(target set)

Institutions

Licensed as User

419 (300)

80% of HEIs60% of FEIs

Registered Users 5153

Downloads 9613

Jorum User

June 2008

(target set)

Institutions

Licensed as Contributor

93 (80)

23% of HEIs12% of FEIs

Registered Contributors 534

Resources

2832

2200 ‘published’

Jorum Contributor

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ShowcaseSome examples

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Consistent Navigation Rich interactive content Accessible video from respected practitioners and

experts

Social Care Institute for Excellence

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Adaptable templates Simple to rebrand and repurpose Promotion of community aspect This resource shows how Learning Styles differ between

students

Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs)

Part of X4L Phase 1; multi-disciplinary consortium

Repurpose JISC online resources for use in e-learning

6 ‘Arts and Design’ Resources (incl. photo essay)

Explore their use within a VLE

E Studio – University of Wolverhampton

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REHASH (Repurposing Existing Healthcare Assets to Share)

60 high quality medical and healthcare resources

University of London, St Georges

REHASH – University of London, St Georges

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Consortium of 4 institutions in the Swansea area

5 subject areas

115 Learning Objects either completed or near completion

Used different sources for the materials to including: NLN Materials, DART, UK Data Archive and StarUK.

REALM – Swansea College

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http://repository.jorum.ac.uk/intralibrary/IntraLibrary?command=open-preview&learning_object_key=i229806n32444t

Note-taking – University of Stirling

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Group of 26 institutions in the North West

Funded through the RSC NW

Range of subject areas covered

This resource shows how to manipulate formulae

'North West Content Exchange' – North Trafford College

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Jorum pre-dates emergence of ‘open access’ & Institutional Repositories:

Open agenda + Creative Commons

Jorum now itself being re-purposed for ‘open sharing’as a platform, and ‘showcase’

for UK commitment to OER (Open Educational Resources)

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

The Changing Agenda

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1. To act as a place where JISC-funded content can be stored, managed and made available

2. To stand as “a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials”

3. To promote sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning materials between institutions

JISC national repository for learning

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

moving Jorum into mainstream of teaching

and learning

Aims

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Devising three new licensing regimes

1. JorumOpenfor content when depositors who are willing and able to share content ‘free2web’

Open Educational Resources, OpenLearn2. JorumEducationUK

for content when depositors who wish or have to share (only) within the UK academic domain

3. JorumPlusfor content with third-party licensed material, or for more limited authorisation

Initial licensing regime was risk-averse, with HEFCE licence required for deposit and for use.

In new regimes we plan to have the depositor license the user directly.

Planning an effective service: time to ‘open-up’

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

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to be able to support open content initiativesto take forward preservation strategyto be a showcase

for learning and teaching resources produced by UK FE and HE institutions.

Opportunity to gain leverage from Web 2.0Merlotwork done in JISC RepositoryNet

e.g. the Depotopen source software

consider existing software ‘fit-for-purpose’But need assurance on scaling for free2web use

Planning to ‘open-up’

Overview

Introduction

Background

Change

Planning

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UK funding councils for HE & FE

national repository for learning and teaching

materials

support for: learning & teaching in UK universities & colleges

community-generated content

Jorum

JISC Sub-CommitteesJISC Collections

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Jorum: sharing content

Push About The Jorum

http://musicaviva.com/tunebook/music.tpl?filnavn=o2-0657-1

jorum

“ … brought with him vessels of silver"

(2 Sam 8:10 - AV)] :

a large drinking vessel or its contents

Ovchinnikov Firm, A jorum. Hallmarked: silver 84*, marked in Russion “P. Ovchinnikov” under the emblem’

Last half of 19th century

Source: http://www.artantique.ru/list-eng.phtml?cat=218

Dance Music of Ireland

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The Jorum Team

John Casey Manager at EDINA Colin Gormley Software Engineer Peter O'Hare Technical Support OfficerAndrew Richardson Service Coordinator

Laura Shaw Manager at MimasMatt Ramirez Training and Support OfficerJanine Rigby Communications Officer

Peter.Burnhill@ed.ac.ukJackie.Carter@manchester.ac.uk

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Comments and questions welcome