Presented by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, Beyond Books: What STM & Social Science publishing should learn from each other, London. Conference programme. 22 April 2010.
A national repository (library?) service for learning materials
1. Peter Burnhill Jorum Co-Director [with Jackie Carter, Mimas] My Day Job: Director, EDINA national data centre University of Edinburgh, UK A national repository (library?) service for learning materials
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10. UK funding councils for HE & FE Content, Tools & Infrastructure JISC Sub-Committees JISC Collections acting as platform for network-level services & helping to build the JISC Integrated Information Environment research, learning & teaching in UK universities & colleges UK Research Councils National Data Centres
11. Dimensions of Openness “ Open” Educational Resources Legal Technical Social Open Access: Content is available to anyone and is provided free of charge Open Formats: Produced in an editable format preferably using open standards Open Licensed: with limited or no restrictions on modifying, re-mixing and repurposing Acknowledgements to Lorna Campbell, Sheila MacNeill & Li Yuan (CETIS)
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18. “ Pushing the Jorum” Jorum tune It’s a word, not an acronym! 'jo-r-*m, 'jo.r-n [perhaps from Joram “ … brought with him vessels of silver" (2 Sam 8:10 - AV)] : a large drinking vessel or its contents Brewers Phrase & Fable hypertext Webster Interface Jorum sharing content
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20. UK funding councils for HE & FE national repository for learning and teaching materials support for: learning & teaching in UK universities & colleges community- generated content Jorum JISC Sub-Committees JISC Collections National Data Centres
42. authorisation licence to use Ensuring researchers, students and their teachers have ease and continuity of access to online scholarly resources “ ease” “ continuity” P.Burnhill, Edinburgh 2009 open restricted access to content & services usability post-cancellation back content preservation Creative Commons licensing discoverability Search (Re-)Use Modify/Combine Share (Issue/Publish) additional considerations Should apply to different types of resource:: typically journal articles, but also now OER learning materials,
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Notas del editor
As many of you will know, JISC is the Joint Systems Committee of the UK funding bodies for higher and furtjher education. It has a number of sub-committees which help inform policy and also watch over programmes of funding and the operation of services, such as those provided by the two National Data Centres. It has also set up a company, JISC Collections as a legal body to broker licences.
Jorum stands as a national statement of importance attached by the funding councils to the importance of sharing
As many of you will know, JISC is the Joint Systems Committee of the UK funding bodies for higher and furtjher education. It has a number of sub-committees which help inform policy and also watch over programmes of funding and the operation of services, such as those provided by the two National Data Centres. It has also set up a company, JISC Collections as a legal body to broker licences.
One of our earliest ‘deliverables’ was this prize-winning poster !!! The overall aims were two-fold. The first, not advertised as such here, was to be a keep-safe for online learning materials that were outcomes from X4L projects, and some of the earlier 5/99 projects. The second was to help build and support the notion of sharing, and doing so using structured IMS/SCORM metadata. As a early implementation of a repository, Jorum had to confront all the difficult questions: there were few examples of learning object repositories in institutions, and not much policy. And HECFE was nervous, and this showed itself in the strict institutional licensing. It was also important not to make Jorum a software development project. .
This simple diagram summarises how Jorum works. Jorum Contributor allows institutions to submit resources, Jorum User gives institutions access to these resources. An R&D strand runs in parallel with the service where we explore issues relevant to our work.
Jorum supports a range of object types, from single file resources to more complex content packages. Jorum can also store records for resources held elsewhere which can be pointed to upon previewing the object. This is useful for contributors who still wish to host their own resources but want to increase its use.
The OER pilot programme – what is it? (will add “institutions including...” and “subjects including...”) Expect Malcolm may want to linger here for a while – need to check what he may want to say with DIUS.
what's this programme all about? It’s about: Getting existing content out on to the open web using existing technologies Finding out what works: good practices Finding out what’s difficult We are mandating only minimum technical requirements This is a Pilot Programme. Projects are expected to: Be bold, innovative & experimental Share successes, failures, ideas, requirements, opportunities & good practices Existing content Existing technologies The open web Focus is on workflows and sustainability Not on significant technical development That’s why we’ve kept the technical requirements to a minimum We don’t yet know what the best models are for sustained OER release We want you to find out Try things out Compare notes We want to learn with you [Handover to Lorna]
Open Repositories, web 2.0, release for easy discovery
what's this programme all about? It’s about: Getting existing content out on to the open web using existing technologies Finding out what works: good practices Finding out what’s difficult We are mandating only minimum technical requirements This is a Pilot Programme. Projects are expected to: Be bold, innovative & experimental Share successes, failures, ideas, requirements, opportunities & good practices Existing content Existing technologies The open web Focus is on workflows and sustainability Not on significant technical development That’s why we’ve kept the technical requirements to a minimum We don’t yet know what the best models are for sustained OER release We want you to find out Try things out Compare notes We want to learn with you [Handover to Lorna]
what's this programme all about? It’s about: Getting existing content out on to the open web using existing technologies Finding out what works: good practices Finding out what’s difficult We are mandating only minimum technical requirements This is a Pilot Programme. Projects are expected to: Be bold, innovative & experimental Share successes, failures, ideas, requirements, opportunities & good practices Existing content Existing technologies The open web Focus is on workflows and sustainability Not on significant technical development That’s why we’ve kept the technical requirements to a minimum We don’t yet know what the best models are for sustained OER release We want you to find out Try things out Compare notes We want to learn with you [Handover to Lorna]
Jorum is changing JorumOpen is the service that we require projects to use for this programme JorumOpen will be available to the world by Autumn 2009 but some services will be rolled out before then What you need to know is that they are providing a mediated deposit service for projects in this programme That means they will take your content as soon as you are ready