[BOAI] The changing role of Jorum: sharing using JorumOpen and JorumUK - press release

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Louise Egan.  --Peter Suber.]

*** Apologies for cross posting ***

*The changing role of Jorum: sharing using JorumOpen and JorumUK*

As Open Educational Resources (OER) increasingly become part of the
landscape of learning and teaching resources, Jorum has now opened up for
the sharing of resources, created under Creative Commons (CC)
licences<http://creativecommons.org/choose/>,
through its new collection *JorumOpen <http://www.jorum.ac.uk/>*.

*JorumOpen - released today* - provides free access to a growing collection
of open educational resources, for all to benefit worldwide, via Jorum’s
trusted source of designated learning and teaching resources.

This latest collection contains and hosts a range of high quality resources,
and we encourage further deposit of open materials, to feature alongside
resources such as the entries submitted to the 2009 Jorum Learning and
Teaching competition <http://www.jorum.ac.uk/community/altcCompetition.html>.
We will also see further content deposited via the UKOER
Programme<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer>,
which will be tagged as ‘ukoer’.

The new Jorum Deposit Chooser <http://jorum.ac.uk/deposit/deposit.htm>will
guide you through a simple step-by-step process to help you determine which
Jorum collection is the most suitable for your needs.

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 resources deposited into JorumOpen.

All material within JorumOpen will also be exposed to search engines such as
Google <http://www.blogger.com/www.google.co.uk> later this year, further
enhancing the search and accessibility of these resources, and providing the
perfect platform to showcase your work and learn from the expertise of
others.

Alongside the JorumOpen collection, Jorum’s existing collection –
*JorumUK*– will continue. JorumUK contains resources that their
creators and owners
prefer to share only within the UK Higher and Further Education community.
This collection contains all resources deposited in Jorum prior to 2010,
under the previous institutional licence: these require an institutional
subscription <http://jorum.ac.uk/getstarted/getstarted.html> to deposit,
search, browse and download resources.

Changes to the JorumUK collection will be made in spring 2010, which will
see the introduction of an additional licence –
JorumEducationUK<http://jorum.ac.uk/changing_jorum.htm>.
This licence will enable sharing across the UK Further and Higher Education
community, without an institutional subscription. Other new features set for
release at this time include a unified search - enabling users to search
across all resources held within both the JorumOpen and JorumUK collections,
providing one simple search.

Summer 2010 will see the introduction of a central deposit tool, allowing
depositors to access a single point to contribute resources automatically
into either collection.

To keep up-to-date with Jorum developments, join our JISCmail
list<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JORUM-UPDATE>,
or look out for announcements on the Jorum website.

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*Louise Egan*

*Communications Officer - Jorum Service*

Mimas, 5th floor Roscoe Building

The University of Manchester

Oxford Road

Manchester

M13 9PL



Tel: 0161 275 6803
Email: louise.egan at manchester.ac.uk

Web: http://www.jorum.ac.uk
Jorum Community Bay: http://community.jorum.ac.uk

Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in
UK Further and Higher Education Institutions. Helping to build a community
for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching materials,
created by the community for the community.

You can also have your say and find out more about all aspects of sharing at
the Jorum Community Bay: http://community.jorum.ac.uk

<http://community.jorum.ac.uk/>To receive updates from the Jorum team,
please join *http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/JORUM-UPDATE **or follow us* on
Twitter at: http://twitter.com/JorumTeam
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