History
Jorum is a JISC-funded collaborative venture in UK Higher and Further Education (HE and FE) to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing, and standing as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials.
The Jorum Depositor service is open to any institution or project team that wants to share their learning and teaching materials with colleagues in the UK. Jorum will host materials that have been publicly funded and also materials that have been developed within institutions.
The Jorum User service, which launched in January 2006, provides access to the shared repository of resources. Teaching and support staff in institutions that take this service will be able to find, preview, download, reuse and repurpose materials for use with learners in their institution.
A research and development strand will run in parallel with the Jorum service in order to ensure that Jorum keeps up with the evolving repositories landscape and expanding user requirements.
Download the history document: 2002-2008
Jorum Vision
As a JISC funded 'service in development', Jorum is a component of the JISC Information Environment (IE) and interoperable with other services within it. As such, Jorum will be one component of a distributed network of repositories, and will be free at the point of use for teaching and support staff.
Jorum aims to promote the sharing, reuse and repurposing of these resources for the long-term. It stands as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials, supporting individuals, teaching teams, collaborative groups and communities in the development and sharing of these resources.
Timelines
It is planned that new services should start to become available in 2010, further updates will appear on the Jorum website and on JORUM-UPDATE discussion list.
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