A national repository (library?) service for learning materials

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

Purpose of Presentation Open Educational Resource (OER) Vision online learning materials / e-learning Jorum its role as national learning materials repository for UK UKOER Programme Re-shaping Jorum for OER JorumOpen and other licensing options Sharing, Finding, Discussing

1. OER & ukoer Vision “ ...digitised materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.” Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2007) “ The UK must have a core of open access learning resources organised in a coherent way to support on-line and blended learning by all higher education institutions and to make it more widely available in non-HE environments.” Sir Ron Cooke (as Chairman of JISC, 2008)

Some Milestones in OER 1998 - Open Content Initiative 2000 - UNESCO conference 2001 - Wikipedia 2002 - MIT OpenCourseWare [US] 2002 - Creative Commons 2006 - OU OpenLearn [UK] 2007 - Cape Town Open Educational Declaration 2009 - HEFCE/JISC/Academy OER (Pilot) Programme (Adapted from Yuan et al (2008), http:// jisc.cetis.ac.uk/oerbriefing )

National OER Programmes ParisTech Open Course Ware Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium (JOCW) China Open Resources for Education (CORE) Irish Open HEFCE/JISC/Academy OER Programme

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

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)

heretical & pedantic side-bar thoughts… “ Openness” Open is opposite of Closed

heretical & pedantic side-bar thoughts… “ Openness” Open is opposite of Closed does not necessarily mean Sharing

heretical & pedantic side-bar thoughts… “ Openness” Open is opposite of Closed Closed means different things across the Open Agenda: Open Access; Open Source Code; Open Data; Open Educational Resources

heretical & pedantic side-bar thoughts… “ Openness” Open is opposite of Closed Closed means different things across the Open Agenda: Open Access; Open Source Code; Open Data; Open Educational Resources OA contrasted with Commercial (Tollgate) Access Heritage through ‘invisible college’ of subject disciplines OER contrasted with private world of teacher/lecturer within walls of the institution Heritage in ‘university without walls’ & ‘education for development’ Anyone remember Ivan Illich?

2. Jorum: learning materials repository (UK) Introduction to Jorum What it is and how it came about What it does and what it contains Examples of UK learning materials Understanding change; looking to the future Changing environment Increasing confidence in ‘open’ model Opportunities and challenges in the OER agenda Planning an effective national service New services: going ‘open’ JorumOpen Support for existing & licensed material

began as ‘keep-safe’, commissioned and grant-funded by the JISC for publicly-funded outputs and content developed in projects at UK institutions it became a support service within X4L Programme eXchange for Learning re-purposed as a JISC national repository to promote sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning materials across UK institutions: active further education (16+) sector pre-dates emergence of ‘open access’ & Institutional Repositories; coincided with look at Creative Commons now being adapted for ‘open sharing’ and as platform, or ‘showcase’ UK commitment to Open Educational Resources (OER)

“ 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

It has been a catalyst for effective collaboration between: learning technologists & tutors for deployment within institution Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) SCORM/IMS content metadata packaging so material can be re-used and re-purposed and within teaching practice JISC and the communities of use it serves the two JISC national data centres, EDINA & Mimas working closely as a team with CETIS (a specialist JISC advisory service for e-learning metadata)

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

To act as a place where JISC-funded content can be stored, managed and made available 2. To stand as “ a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials” Jorum has had two main purposes

Jorum Contributor ‘ putting content in’ Jorum User ‘ getting content out’ ‘ keep-safe’ Two Services + ‘Keep-safe’ mandate + Jorum R&D

Single files Content Packages / Learning Objects Virtual Objects Text documents, Spread Sheets, PowerPoints, Images, Video, Audio, Flash Animations Bundling learning resources together with metadata. Content can be moved between programs, facilitating easier delivery, reuse and sharing of materials. Jorum can catalogue and point to resources stored elsewhere A variety of content

3. OER Pilot Programme one year programme – HEFCE-funded; managed by JISC & the Higher Education Academy. subject institution individual 14 projects 9 projects 7 projects support function – covering technical, legal, strategic advice, workshops, support for deposit and aggregation of materials, communities of practice. Based around existing JISC services & OU “SCORE” project. OER infokit – a “how to” guide for future work evaluation & synthesis function Programme Management

3 strands of funding over 12 months: Institutional projects: 7 @ up to £250k per project Subject consortia : 14 @ up to 250k per project Individual projects: 9 @ up to £20k per project 30 pilot projects in all Over 80 institutions involved in OER Programme UKOER Pilot Programme

Aim is that the funded projects will ... Release a significant amount of resources ‘openly’ Prompt change and clarity in institutional policies about online learning resources. adapt processes and policies to ensure release is sustained Act as a pilot to inform the design of a next (and larger) phase of the OER Programme offering value for money to the UK HE sector. promoting a positive profile for institutions and the sector worldwide test a “business model” for open release contribute to understanding of practicalities of open release in different contexts UKOER Pilot Programme

Projects are expected to: represent them in Jorum publish them online, via Jorum or otherwise Yet to consider long term access (preservation) publish materials via: Open institutional repositories Web 2.0 services Institutional websites all must have an exposed RSS feed

The OER Pilot Programme does not mandate : the use of one single platform to disseminate resources a single metadata application profile to describe content But … projects do need to ensure that content can be: Found / Used / Analysed / Aggregated / Tracked Only mandated metadata are: Programme tag – “ukoer” Title / Author [owner, contributor, from user profile] / Date / URL Technical info – file format, name & size Platforms should be capable of generating RSS/Atom feeds particularly for collections of resources e.g. YouTube channels Projects should use appropriate standards for sharing complex objects: e.g. IMS Content Packaging, IMS Common Cartridge, OAI ORE e.g. IMS QTI for assessment items UKOER Pilot Programme

For existing content (not about digitisation or content creation) Geared at transforming this for release as OER Recommendations on usability, accessibility and design Pointers to guidelines on management of IPR/Copyright It’s a pilot! Encourages bold, innovative experimentation different approaches / use of variety of platforms but Need to register description and location of content with Jorum Need to track use of content key role for Jorum and for ukoer tag UKOER Pilot Programme

4. Re-shaping Jorum for OER Jorum is going open access! lots of new, open content to be available via Jorum OER Programme; JISC Digitisation projects; RePRODUCE/RLO-CETL JorumOpen and other licensing options One of three licensing regimes Re-stating role of Jorum and JorumOpen Sharing, Finding, Discussing

Three enabling licensing schemes: view all content as licensed! JorumOpen [ open to the world] JorumEducationUK [for ‘authenticated’ members of community ] JorumPlus [requiring ‘authorisation’ ]

Three enabling licensing schemes: JorumOpen content whose creators/owners are willing & able to share materials for anyone to use via the web; uses Creative Commons (CC) licences JorumEducationUK JorumPlus

Three enabling licensing schemes: JorumOpen JorumEducationUK [ a custom licence] content whose creators/owners who need/opt to restrict availability of resources to members of UK further and higher education; authenticated via the Access Management Federation JorumPlus

Three enabling licensing schemes: JorumOpen JorumEducationUK JorumPlus for sharing content with additional restrictions for example where material licensed via JISC Collections or from third parties typically requires institutional authorisation

JorumOpen Anyone in the world will be able to search, browse, download and use resources on JorumOpen, respecting licence terms for each resource Content deposited under JorumOpen will be exposed to search engines In first instance, sharing (deposit) via JorumOpen requires ‘authentication’ intended for people within UK FE/HE with necessary rights and wish to release materials under Creative Commons licences even so, depositors responsible for content deposited via JorumOpen just as they would on web2.0 services such as Slideshare, YouTube, flickr etc

Jorum OER Deposit Tool supports the deposit of a simple item, or collection of items a link/URL to an open educational resource from a remote site (at present) requires authenticated access and a simple one-off registration UK Access Management Federation [Shibboleth] single sign-on as per home institution simple steps to enable content upload, entry of basic metadata and selection of a suitable Creative Commons licence with option to add more metadata, for greater discoverability ... all to assist the sharing and finding of OER via JorumOpen! http:// deposit.jorum.ac.uk

Jorum is being re-shaped as … a place for sharing learning and teaching materials both deposit and download a place for finding learning and teaching materials in Jorum and elsewhere a place to come and exchange views and tools the Jorum Community Bay

Jorum Community Bay [to share KnowHow] knowledge exchange and discussion about all aspects of sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning & teaching resources beginners and experts in development complete with Jorum Forum we are keen to populate So, come and get involved! target: area for UKOER projects to engage in discussions http://community.jorum.ac.uk/

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,

Any questions? http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/oerbriefing http://www.ocwconsortium.org www.eadtu.nl [email_address]

Resources Cetis Briefing Paper (2008), Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education , http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf Cooke, R. (2008) On-line Innovation in Higher Education http://tinyurl.com/5vt5lo Downes, S. (2006) Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources, National Research, Council Canada, http://tinyurl.com/64xqym OEDb (2007), 80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives, http://oedb.org/library/features/80-oer-tools OECD (2007), Giving Knowledge for Free: the Emergence of Open Educational Resources, http://tinyurl.com/62hjx6 . OECD (2007), Open Content Licensing (OCL) for Open Educational Resources, http://tinyurl.com/5oh3es UNESCO, 2008, UNESCO OER Toolkit, http://tinyurl.com/5zmnwn Wiley, D. (2006) On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher Education, www.oecd.org/edu/oer . ZaidLearn, (2008), University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE!, http://tinyurl.com/5hcd5o

… and here are those details again: Jorum OER deposit tool http:// deposit.jorum.ac.uk support via Jorum website http:// www.jorum.ac.uk /deposit Jorum helpdesk [email_address] or 0131 650 3302 Jorum Community Bay http:// community.jorum.ac.uk /

Some useful links Jorum http:// www.jorum.ac.uk / Jorum Collection Development Policy http:// www.jorum.ac.uk/policies.html Creative Commons http:// creativecommons.org / MrCute http:// www.learningobjectivity.com/mrcute / RePRODUCE project http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningcapital/reproduce.aspx JISC Digitisation programme http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/projects.aspx RLO-CETL http://www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk

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