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Posted by Frank Manista
on 17th November 2011
UKOER: The New Beginning
On 14 November 2011, Phase-3 of the new UKOER projects had its start. The meeting was co-chaired by David Kernohan from JISC and Dave Mossley from the HEA. There are 13 new thematic projects, which include:
- The University of Oxford: "Great Writers"
- Southampton Solent University: "Opening Up a Future in Business"
- Doncaster College: "3D Resources for the Built Environment"
- De Montfort University: "HALS OER"
- University of the Arts, London: "ALTO UK"
- University of Nottingham: "PARis"
- University of Oxford: "Sesame"
- Coventry University: "COMC"
- Newcastle University: "PublishOER"
- University of Southampton: "FAVOR"
- University of Cambridge: "ORBIT"
- Sheffield Hallam...
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Posted by Frank Manista
on 24th October 2011
Rationale for this Blog Post:
For Activity Week 2011, we thought we’d highlight a bit of what's been going on with Jorum and some of the exciting things coming out of JISC, particularly with OERs. Since the 1st of August, which as many know, marked a big transition for Jorum. Since then, we’ve moved to being an open repository, hosting only those resources which are under a Creative Commons licence. Even with those items which are no longer visible in Jorum because they carried a non-CC licence, our collection has continued to grow, and we now have over 12,500 items which can be used and re-purposed as teachers and scholars need, ostensibly making all of the materials housed in Jorum...
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Posted by Frank Manista
on 10th October 2011
The Jorum Final Report was signed off by JISC and is now available: it outlines the history and development of Jorum from its inception in 2002, hosted jointly by EDINA and Mimas, but it focuses primarily on the past three years and our transition to Mimas at the end of July 2011. Aside from anything else, the report illustrates a service in development, which has learned a great deal and has had much success; particularly poignant is the point made that in 2002, “it was a cutting-edge development with few, if any, established exemplars or other repositories from which to learn.” The document also illustrates some of the key methods the staff at both data centres used to work on and...
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Posted by Frank Manista
on 10th October 2011
Jorum’s Involvement with UKOER-2:
The UKOER Phase-2 Projects officially wrapped up at the end of August, 2011, with expectations for all the final reports being released soon. As a JISC-funded, national, open repository, Jorum has had the pleasure and advantage of working with some of the projects quite directly; even with those whom we didn’t work that closely, we’ve made contact to emphasise our support, if required. In addition to that underscore, there are some things which would be a good idea to highlight, in terms of what we’ve learned and what has been accomplished.
Bulk Upload:
Following on the success of the UKOER Phase-1 projects, many were asking for a means of...
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Posted by Laura Shaw
on 6th October 2011
As part of its on-going socio-technical development Jorum is undertaking the following community and technical activities during the period Oct 2011 to Jan 2012, as well as developing a longer-term strategy that informs Jorum’s future Business Plan. This blog post summarises the work over the next four months; a more detailed project plan will soon be available for those who want to know more.
Activities, separated into Community and Technical activities, are summarised graphically in the following diagram, and discussed further in the remainder of this document.
1. Community Activities
1.1 Establishment of Jorum's User Group
User feedback on the current version of Jorum and its...
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