Jorum
Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Jorum encourages sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials created by the community for the community. Jorum is a service in development, run jointly by EDINA and Mimas National Data centres and funded by JISC.
Jorum case study Jorum hosts a wide range of learning and teaching materials in various formats, ranging from single file assets, (documents, diagrams, animations) to more complex, interactive objects (content packages).
Sharing and repurposing resources allows teaching staff to not only save time in lesson planning but encourages best practice amongst the teaching community.
There are currently two types of licence available within Jorum.
User Licence
The User licence provides access to the shared repository of resources. Teaching and support staff in Further and Higher Education Institutions can use this service to find, preview, download, reuse and repurpose materials. Resources can be used locally via a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or intranet. The resources can be used freely for educational purposes. You are required to register only once and then you can simply log in using your Shibboleth username and password. First you need to check if your organisation has registered to use Jorum, you can find this out by visiting the Jorum website
Depositor Licence
The Depositor licence allows institutions to upload and share teaching and learning resources with other teaching and support staff in the UK. There are a number of reasons to get involved:
- Jorum offers a ‘keepsafe’ for resources; they are catalogued, securely stored and professionally managed
- Participate in the advancement, embedding and sustainability of e-learning across the UK
- Promote electronic resources to peers across the UK, assisting their teaching by allowing them to repurpose the work to suit their needs
- Many projects need to disseminate resource outputs to comply with their funding. Jorum can help fulfill this requirement.
To do this, both you and your institution need to sign a licence agreement agreeing to Jorum’s terms and conditions. This is all explained on the Jorum website
Jorum moves to Open Access
Jorum is moving towards collecting open educational resources in the next phase of its development. Depositors will be able to choose one of three enabling licensing schemes for sharing content: JorumOpen, JorumEducationUK and JorumPlus.
JorumOpen
Content whose creators/owners are willing and able to share materials for anyone to use via the web under Creative Commons (CC) licences.
JorumEducationUK
Content whose creators/owners need/opt to restrict availability of resources to members of UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, authenticated via the Access Management Federation.
JorumPlus
For sharing content with additional restrictions:
- For example where material is licensed via JISC Collections or from third parties
- Typically requires institutional authorization
All depositors need to respect the terms and conditions of use when using another's content, but the JorumOpen licensing regime, which makes use of Creative Commons licence options, is the most flexible and the one that is required for use in the OER Programme. All content released under the OER Programme will have the tag ‘ukoer’.
In preparation for collection of openly licenced resources and in support of the OER Programme, the Jorum team has also developed the Jorum OER Deposit Tool, for the safe storage of open educational resources. Currently a beta version, the Jorum OER Deposit Tool allows ‘early bird’ depositors to upload learning and teaching resources for safe keeping prior to the launch of the expanded Jorum User service. Once launched, all resources received will automatically be available on open access.
For further information please visit the Jorum Community Bay which aims to support knowledge exchange and discussion on all aspects of sharing, re-use and repurposing of learning and teaching resources, and is also in development. As well as aggregating useful links, tools, software betas, blogs, case studies and reports, the Community Bay is a place to contribute to online discussions on repurposing and sharing, for beginners and experts alike. A discussion forum has been set up for UKOER projects in the Sharing Resources area.