Jorum Learning & Teaching Competition
The criteria against which resources will be judged are:
Appropriateness: What is the teaching/learning problem that your resource has been designed to solve and how does it achieve its objectives?
Engagement: What makes your resource something that teachers/students want to use? Does it offer something that other media can’t?
Effectiveness: Is your resource an effective way for teachers/students to learn? How would you express that effectiveness?
Reusability: Digital learning objects are particularly valuable when they are reusable and reconfigurable. Many different aspects may be reusable including, structure, content or pedagogical approach also in terms of open access.
Note that the criteria are all about education and not about technology. Sometimes the most appropriate, engaging and effective learning and teaching resources are technologically simple. However, sometimes technology allows approaches to teaching and learning that were previously unimagined.
Judging Panel
Dr Jackie Carter, is the Mimas Learning & Teaching and Social Science Data Services Senior Manager. She also co-directs Jorum and is a member of the RLO-CETL Steering Group. She has interests in the application of technology across the educational landscape and in the skills agenda - particularly in spatial, statistical, data and digital literacy. Jackie manages the award winning Hairdressing Training for Mobiles Service. She has worked at Mimas for nearly 13 years and was previously a secondary school mathematics teacher.
Dawn Leeder, Reward and Development Manager RLO-CETL (Reusable Learning Object Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) and Trustee and Central Executive Committee member of ALT. Dawn has been very involved in producing, sharing and evaluating high quality multimedia e-learning resources in the form of reusable learning objects.
Sarah Darley, Learning Technologist on the NHS funded MTS Programme and part of the Manchester Business School e-learning team. She is also a holder of CMALT. Previously Sarah worked at the University of Derby on a JISC-funded project which explored the opportunities for creating, sharing and reusing open learning resources. This project aimed to build upon the Open University’s OpenLearn approach by extending it to other HEIs.
Laura Shaw, Senior Development Officer at Mimas is responsible for coordinating the teaching and learning services and projects. This currently includes Jorum and Hairdressing Training, an online training resource for education institutions across the UK. Laura has worked in e-learning for over 10 years in both HE and FE including as an Advisor at a JISC Regional Support Centre. Laura has considerable experience in supporting academics to design learning materials and is especially interested in how academics can benefit from the use of technology.
Rowin Young, is the Coordinator of the Assessment special interest group within CETIS, (Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards). She has managed and participated in a number of assessment-related projects, and has particular interests in metadata and item banking, online identities, and gaming.
