Jorum is to offer open educational resources, in an announcement by JISC today. The move to open access – named JorumOpen – “will make it easier for lecturers and teaching staff to share and re-use each other’s teaching resources.”
The global aspect of sharing is interesting, and the Creative Commons aspect is a welcome addition, particularly if it follows something along the lines of Flickr’s approach, which offers a very visual overview. The announcement makes no mention of statistics, something I think would be useful in terms of seeing some geographical representation of sharing, e.g., seeing where the most highly rated content originated from or which areas were the biggest contributors.
Alongside JorumOpen will be JorumEducationUK, which is a ‘members only’ area for within the UK education sector.
21 April, 2008 at 4.44 pm
The first meeting of 2008 for the Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG will be held on Tuesday, 12th February at Birkbeck, University of London. The meeting will focus on updates from projects in the JISC Repositories and preservation programme and will run from 10.30 (with registration from 10.00) to 16.00 . As ever, attendance is free and lunch is provided. For full information on the meeting, visit the meeting wiki page. To register, visit the event registration page.
The meeting includes presentations on the following topics.
SOURCE
The SOURCE project is looking at enabling bulk migration and deposit of learning objects in significant UK HE platforms, and is led by Birkbeck College.
FeedForward
FeedForward will develop a highly-usable desktop tool that aims to support a synthesis of user-created and curated content within a simple workflow. The project is being led by the University of Bolton.
Enhanced Tagging for Discovery
The Enhanced Tagging for Discovery project (EnTag) looks at investigating the combination and comparison of controlled and folksonomy approaches to semantic interoperability supporting resource discovery in repositories and digital collections. The project is led by UKOLN.
28 January, 2008 at 3.49 pm
