<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><font size="2">[Forwarding from Louise Egan, via the JISC-Repositories list. --Peter Suber.]<br></font><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">
<div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div><span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div>**<span style="font-weight:bold"> Apologies for cross posting </span>**</div>
<div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><div><div><br></div><div>Dear colleagues</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It has been 12 months to the day since
the release of JorumOpen, which has grown to become the vast collection of Open
Educational Resources (OER) you see today. </span>JorumOpen now hosts or points to over
11,300 freely available learning and teaching resources. Through JorumOpen anyone,
anywhere can find, use and repurpose learning and teaching resources - all from
one convenient place.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0A9192">"Being
in Jorum means that your resources are more visible in Google searches. And who
can tell what the educational impact of that might be? By publishing your materials
as open educational resources, their educational benefits have the potential to
be felt by learners far beyond their original learning contexts. It’simpossible to predict how big an impact a resource can have, but it’s almost
unethical not to share it and deprive other learners of its potential" </font> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Katy Jordan, The
University of Cambridge</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Feedback throughout the year
has been extremely encouraging. We have learnt a lot along the way, and
by listening to ours users and gathering feedback, we will keep developing and
evolving the service. We know there is still work to do, and would like to
express our thanks to all our ‘finders’ and ‘sharers’ of resources, for your
continued backing, help and advice shared.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jorum continues to work
closely with the JISC Open Educational Resources programme, and hosts or points
to all outputs from this programme. Thanks to this programme, Jorum users
will see many more of the most exciting and innovative resources from across
the country being shared openly.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#0A9192">“JorumOpen’s
growing collection of resources shows the enthusiasm for sharing openly
licensed teaching materials”</font> </span>Amber
Thomas, Programme Manager, Information Environment Team, JISC Innovation Group</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Jorum
team will continue to actively promote resources shared from all our
depositors, to help further raise awareness of their excellent work.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><a><span lang="EN-US">Development
work continues;</span></a><a name="12d9f2e26ee564a5__GoBack"></a><span lang="EN-US"> with many more changes being unveiled soon…watch this
space!</span><span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Jorum Team</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Louise Egan<br>Communications Officer - Jorum Service<br>Mimas, 5th floor Roscoe Building<br>
The University of Manchester<br>Oxford Road<br>Manchester<br>M13 9PL<br><br>Tel: 0161 275 6803<br>Email: <a href="mailto:louise.egan@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank">louise.egan@manchester.ac.uk</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.jorum.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.jorum.ac.uk</a> <br>
Jorum Community Bay: <a href="http://community.jorum.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://community.jorum.ac.uk</a><br><br><br>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,<br>
created by the community for the community.<br><br>You can also have your say and find out more about all aspects of sharing at the Jorum Community Bay: <a href="http://community.jorum.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://community.jorum.ac.uk</a><br>
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