Category Archives: Jorum

UKOER 2: Dissemination protocols in use and Jorum representation

By JohnR | August 26, 2011

What technical protocols are projects using to share their resource? and how are they planning on representing their resources in Jorum? This is a post in the UKOER 2 technical synthesis series.
[These posts should be regarded as drafts for comment until I remove this note]
Dissemination protocols
The chosen dissemination protocols are usually already built in the platforms in use by projects; [...]

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OER Hackday: initial reflections

By JohnR | April 5, 2011

On Thursday and Friday CETIS and UKOLN ran OERHack

last time I counted we had a little over 250 tweets.
Once we take ‘OERHack’ and RT out of the picture we see:

250 tweets isn’t that many for 2 days and ~40 people but that’s cause everyone was busy

Beforehand the event we had some discussions on blogs.

Musings on [...]

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RSS for deposit, Jorum and UKOER: part 2 commentary

By JohnR | February 4, 2010

Following on from part 1 which reviewed Jorum’s requirements for RSS-based deposit, this section synthesises the comments and feedback emerging in response to it.
Community views
In response to the requirements and position papers a number of feeds where submitted for testing and there has been some thoughtful reflection on the issues in the blogs and by [...]

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RSS for deposit, Jorum and UKOER: part 1 review

By JohnR | February 4, 2010

Over the past few months CETIS and Jorum have been discussing approaches to bulk deposit to support the projects in the UKOER programme as they deposit or represent their OERs in Jorum. Based on feedback from projects gathered through our technical reviews of projects, we’ve investigated approaches which might work for the programme.
One option we [...]

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