The next phase of Jorum: sharing using JorumOpen and JorumUK
From 19th January 2010, Jorum opens up to sharing of learning and teaching resources using Creative Commons (CC) licences – under the banner of JorumOpen. This allows access free to the web, for all to benefit worldwide.
Depositing your Open Educational Resources (OER) before January will help to ensure a critical mass of resources in the new year, adding to open content already being deposited by projects in the UKOER Programme*.
Deposit prior to the release of JorumOpen can be made through the Jorum OER Deposit Tool. Simply upload the resource, submit metadata and then indicate your choice of CC licence to authorize re-use, so that your resources are ‘ready’ for JorumOpen.
Members of UK Further and Higher Education Institutions, using the UK Access Management Federation to authenticate, can deposit - but anyone will be able to search, browse and download the materials deposited via JorumOpen.
To deposit your resources visit the Jorum website at: http://www.jorum.ac.uk/deposit
The current Jorum service, which holds a wide variety of learning and teaching resources (available to the UK only), will now be known as JorumUK. This service will continue to be available to members of UK Further and Higher Education Institutions who need to deposit or use resources with a more restrictive licence attached. At present, JorumUK still requires an institutional subscription.
A forward look into 2010
In spring 2010 further enhancements to the Jorum service will include:
- a unified search – enabling users to search across resources held under both JorumOpen and JorumUK licensing
- an extension of JorumUK - a new licence to support sharing across UK Further and Higher Education Institutions without an institutional subscription
In summer 2010:
- a central deposit tool – a single point for depositors to contribute resources automatically under JorumOpen or JorumUK licensing
* The UKOER Programme, launched by JISC and the Higher Education Academy in June 2009, is a pilot activity for large-scale release of open educational resources. It involves 30 projects from over 80 universities and colleges.
