jorum.ac.uk How does Jorum support open scholars? Nicola Siminson OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk Session overview Jorum – brief background Open scholars – some definitions Showcasing academic users of Jorum Update on Jorum developments Keeping in touch Any questions? OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk 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!Creative Commons –Jorum EducationUK – new licensing option JISC-funded; run by UK National Data Centres OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk 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. OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk NTU SHARE workshop 16 th March 2011

jorum.ac.uk 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 Burton OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk 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 Anderson OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk Academic users of Jorum Rachel Wicaksono, York St John University Katy Jordan, University of Cambridge Natasha Mayo, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk 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) 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 OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk Recent Jorum developments peer review of resources collaboration with others the Jorum roadmap – creation of widgets OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk The Jorum widgets Search User Subject Jorum widget builder: OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk Future developments Clearer navigation and access Advanced search by licence type Making our code open source OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk 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 OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk Keeping in touch contact Jorum Support: join the Jorum Update discussion list: join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter: OER11 conference 11 th May 2011

jorum.ac.uk References Anderson, T. (2009) ‘ALT-C 2009 Keynote speech’, blip.tv. Available at: Burton, G. (2009) ‘The Open Scholar’, Academic Evolution blog, 11 August. Available at: open-scholar.htmlhttp:// open-scholar.html Jukes, M. (2010) ‘OUJISCO – Digital Scholarship at the OU’, JISC Information Environment Team blog, 11 March. Available at: the-ou/ the-ou/ All URLs accessed: 30 November 2010 OER11 conference 11 th May 2011