Jorum Blog
Posted by Jorum Guest Blogger
on 23rd May 2013
Sally Reeve is Assistant Information Adviser, at Queenwood Library, University of Brighton and writes in a personal capacity. She shares with us her experiences of some of the different tools that are available to create OERs.
Overview from Jorum
A recent discussion on the LIS-INFOLITERACY e-mail list captured our attention as we witnessed a superb exchange of ideas about the types of online tools available to create OERs. How wonderful it was to see a great response to Sally’s initial request, which asked how other’s had created interactive Information Literacy resources, and as the development and sharing of OERs is at the heart of Jorum’s existence, we were thrilled that Sally...
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Posted by Joy Hooper
on 23rd April 2013
It’s always uplifting to hear about what users within our community are doing, particularly when it relates to developing innovative ways to use and share open resources. Nick Sheppard, Repository Developer at Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Met), is an advocate for this approach and is at the cutting edge of change; finding new ways to use the Jorum API. The Jorum Application Programming Interface, known simply as an API can be used to build customised web tools and services onto Jorum, aimed at meeting the specific needs of a community.
So what is Nick’s vision of the future?
Nick would, “…like to see a world without boundaries, one that is more integrated, where people can...
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Posted by Joy Hooper
on 19th April 2013
It’s a good feeling to go away from a conference inspired by innovative ideas and insights from leading practitioners. The OER13 conference in Nottingham provided lots of practical illustrations about how the higher and further education communities are using and sharing open educational resources (OER). Here are a few personal highlights and musings from myself, and Sarah Currier (Jorum Service Manager), followed by a quick canvas around the Jorum team to find out what they found most helpful.
Sarah’s personal highlights...
For me, OER13 was a cracker of a conference from Jorum's perspective. The team was lucky to be able to go en masse and my goodness, I was pleased we were all...
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Posted by Sarah Currier
on 20th March 2013
NB: As at our "go live to DSpace 1.8" date 20 March 2013, Jorum Deposit is down due to some issues with transferring Shibboleth authentication over to our new server - we'll let you know as soon as it is back up. In the meantime you can read below about our move to 1.8 and all the goodies it is bringing
I don't know about you, but I've never had a free upgrade on a flight, except for one time on a short-haul budget plane, where the main difference was that I got cake with my evening snack, and those behind the magic curtain didn't. That actually made me feel kinda bad.
Well, we're not elitist here. Today, Jorum is upgrading all of you, for free, from a rickety ancient version of our...
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Posted by Joy Hooper
on 7th March 2013
Jorum Powered offers simple solutions for publishing, promoting and managing your Open Educational Resources (OER) – all supported, maintained and powered by Jorum.
It’s a wonderful time to be part of the Jorum community. Our exciting new user interface is scheduled for release soon, providing contributors and other users with an improved search, preview, reporting and of course, the new Jorum API. Our recent blog:
Jorum has just got a whole lot beta, provides more details about this upgrade and further information will be featured in a forthcoming blog.
The Jorum ‘core offer’, which is free to all, enables users across the sector to find and share OER, thanks to funding from Jisc. On...
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