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How does Jorum support open scholars?

Nicola Siminson

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Session overview • Jorum – brief background• Open scholars – some definitions• Showcasing academic users of Jorum• Update on Jorum developments• Keeping in touch• Any questions?

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What is Jorum?• a FREE online service providing access to

learning and teaching resources • thousands of resources shared by the UK Further

and Higher Education Community– mainly OER (Open Educational Resources),

licensed under Creative Commons – anyone can download and use these!

– Jorum EducationUK – new licensing option

• JISC-funded; run by UK National Data Centres

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• Identifying elements: the flame test experiment – Paul Hatherly, 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.

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What is an “open scholar”?“someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible and who invites and encourages ongoing criticism of their work and secondary uses of any or all parts of it”

Gideon Burtonhttp://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/the-open-scholar.html

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OER and academics“It’s becoming to me as [if] you are almost a negligent academic if you don’t go out and look for the OERs before you start developing things”

Terry Andersonhttp://alt-c.blip.tv/file/2613543?filename=Mmsmms-Keynote03TerryAnderson993.flv

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Academic users of Jorum• Rachel Wicaksono, York St John University

http://vimeo.com/7471942

• Katy Jordan, University of Cambridgehttp://vimeo.com/15192807

• Natasha Mayo, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

http://vimeo.com/16534965

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How Jorum supports open scholars• supporting and adding value to open sharing

– Jorum enables resources to be discovered and downloaded, providing a trusted source of designated learning and teaching resources

– Jorum contains / points to all resources from the UKOER Programme (Phase 1 and 2) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer

• helping to manage and disseminate resources– security of a national collection (which is growing) – Jorum and Google – making resources more visible and discoverable – Jorum widgets

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Recent Jorum developments• peer review of resources

• collaboration with others

• the Jorum roadmap– http://community.jorum.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=61

• creation of widgets

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The Jorum widgets• Search

• User

• Subject

Jorum widget builder:http://www.jorum.ac.uk/widget

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Future developments• Clearer navigation and access

• Advanced search by licence type

• Making our code open source

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In conclusion: • the value of sharing – and reusing – resources is

high • Jorum is a place to find and share learning and

teaching resources – including OER• Jorum can support open scholars and add value to

open sharing:– by enabling material to be shared, discovered and downloaded openly

under Creative Commons licensing;– by providing a trusted source of online learning and teaching

resources;– by increasing the visibility of these resources

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Keeping in touch• contact Jorum Support:

support@jorum.ac.uk• join the Jorum Update discussion list:

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JORUM-UPDATE

• join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter:

http://www.facebook.com/JorumTeam

http://twitter.com/JorumTeam

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References • Anderson, T. (2009) ‘ALT-C 2009 Keynote speech’, blip.tv.

Available at: http://alt-c.blip.tv/file/2613543/• Burton, G. (2009) ‘The Open Scholar’, Academic Evolution blog, 11

August. Available at: http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/the-open-scholar.html

• Jukes, M. (2010) ‘OUJISCO – Digital Scholarship at the OU’, JISC Information Environment Team blog, 11 March. Available at: http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2010/03/11/oujisco-digital-scholarship-at-the-ou/

All URLs accessed: 30 November 2010

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