1. Development Officer Jorum (Communications).
Janine Rigby
Development Officer Jorum (Communications).

2. “Helping to build a community for Sharing”
The Aim of Jorum
“Helping to build a community for Sharing”

3. What is Jorum ?
“A FREE online service for staff in UK Universities and Colleges to share, reuse and repurpose electronic learning and teaching resources”.
“The JISC funded service is jointly run between the EDINA and Mimas national data centres based at the Universities of Edinburgh and Manchester.”

4. The Jorum Team + Website + Repository + Legal Framework
What does that mean ?
The Jorum Team
+ Website
+ Repository
+ Legal Framework
+ L&T Resources
+ Metadata
+ Users

5. How does Jorum work? Jorum Contributor Jorum User Jorum R&D
“putting content in”
“getting content out”
Jorum R&D

6. The Jorum Website – www.jorum.ac.uk

7. The Jorum Repository – IntraLibrary

8. The Jorum Repository – Searching
Search by “Methods” hits
Refine by “Intended for Use in” hits
Further refine by “Type of resource”

9. What’s in Jorum? Single files
Content Packages / Learning Objects
Virtual Objects
Text documents, Spread Sheets, PowerPoints,
Images, Video, Audio, Flash Animations
Bundling learning resources together with metadata.
Content can be moved between programs, facilitating
easier delivery, reuse and sharing of materials.
Jorum can catalogue and point to resources stored elsewhere

10. Showcase
Some examples

11. Healthier Nations Project – Working with VLEs

12. REHASH – University of London, St Georges
REHASH (Repurposing Existing Healthcare Assets to Share)
60 high quality interactive medical & healthcare resources
University of London, St Georges

13. E Studio – University of Wolverhampton
Part of X4L Phase 1; multi-disciplinary consortium
Repurpose JISC online resources for use in e-learning
6 ‘Arts and Design’ Resources (incl. photo essay)
Explore their use within a VLE

14. What are the advantages?
Legal security – Robust licensing system.
Authenticated Access – Security for content, limiting access to the educational community, and providing usage statistics.
Metadata – Resource descriptions conform to accepted standards, resources can be easily found and used.
Cataloguing – Jorum is able to offer assistance in attaching metadata to content by funding information specialists.
Workflow – Jorum has developed a workflow process that can be tailored to the needs of contributors

15. Provide a place for shared learning and teaching content
Why consider using Jorum?
Provide a place for shared learning and teaching content
Provide a place to showcase content
Make clear the terms and conditions of use of that content
Extend the availability of resources beyond your community
Help you find content – avoid reinventing the wheel
Help attract funding (FDTL, CETLs, HEA SCs, JISC projects)
Provides statistics (e.g. SCONUL for libraries, project outputs)