1. Why we started using Jorum
I became more engaged with using Jorum when I was project manager for a JISC project ‘NTU SHARE
- Supporting, Harnessing and Advancing Repository Enhancement2
’, which was part of the Information
Environment Programme. We found that we could harvest records from Jorum into our learning repository
within our VLE - Desire2Learn3
, so we switched this functionality on. Staff at Nottingham Trent University
(NTU) could already retrieve learning and teaching resources directly from MERLOT4
and those published
by colleagues, but gaining access to Jorum increased the amount of retrievable resources via the learning
repository search interface.
How Jorum works for us
It appears to be used in two ways to see quality assured learning and teaching resources in a variety
of subject areas, and where possible link to resources. I say wherever possible, our learning repository
allows us to link to anything retrieved in search from our courses, however, if the link is to a content
package it is not possible to do this without downloading it and importing it into the VLE. I have looked at
the Jorum website and I still find it difficult to find guidance on how to use content packages in a VLE (am I
missing something?...(Thanks for the feedback Vicki) ).
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“ We use Jorum to see
quality assured learning
and teaching resources
in a variety of subject
areas”
Vicki
McGarvey
Senior eLearning
Developer, Centre
for Academic
Development and
Quality, Nottingham
Trent University
User Story
On a journey with Jorum
In this story we speak to Vicki McGarvey who first became aware of
Jorum about seven years ago when she was a Learning Development
and Innovation Manager at Staffordshire University.
At this time, Vicki was involved in a JISC project called ‘SURF Work
Based Learning’, which developed resources to support work based
learning. Outputs1
from this project were required to be published to
Jorum and shared as content packages.
Jorum Stories Apr 12
jorum.ac.uk
1. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/x4l.aspx
2. http://www.ntushare.org/
3. http://www.desire2learn.com/newsletters/Horizon/Issue16/articles/?id=4
4. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
“I have noticed
all the resources
are open now
which is great.”
We refer to Jorum as a resource in our face-to-face and online training and
guidance on sharing learning and teaching resources. I do not often look at
the homepage because I access the resources from the learning repository,
but I have noticed all the resources are open now which is great. I also use
the RSS feed to find out what is going on.