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SocialLearn Team: Simon Buckingham Shum, Rebecca Ferguson, Mark Glaister, Thanh Le
Learning in an Open World Open University: Online Conference, June 2010 http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2012
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk
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The road ahead?…
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Quality OERs OpenLearn
TESSA
iTunesU
YouTube
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Social Apps
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Social Apps
Tools used by learners mid-2008 (Mapped by Martin Weller @ SocialLearn User Workshop, July 2008)
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… and we’re writing our own of course…
Social Apps OU Course Profiles
Facebook app
iSpot citizen science
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Is that it? A cloud of tools, partially integrated via web feeds?
Social Apps
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Quality OERs
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Social Learning Infrastructure
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12 Focus of this talk Lots of OU R&D
Lots of OU R&D
Social Learning Infrastructure
Technology
People
Practices
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Technology
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an OU-only social network
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OU versions of the coolest
tools
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a collaborative network tuned for inquiring
minds
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better ways to find peers
sharing my learning interests
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mentors committed to my learning
needs
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smart agents filtering the Net
for relevant learning
resources
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analytics and recommendations
tuned for learning/inquiry
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The social learners are here… …and if they could smoothly exchange important learner-centric data
between their favourite tools, they might thank us
API
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OpenLearn
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SocialLearn 1. Profile 2. User Interface 3. Social Graph 4. Services
OU VLE
Interoperability via API & Google Gadgets
The SocialLearn provides the ‘glue’ to connect activities, friends and recommendations
ORO Cloudworks
…other OU sites…
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SocialLearn beta: homepage
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SocialLearn “dashboard” of gadgets
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Gadget ideas…
SocialLearn PhD Skills Gadget Path Gadget I’m Stuck Gadget Mentor Gadget
Plus… From KMi: eg. Flashmeeting, Virtual Microscope, ROLE… From OU: eg. Library Search From other educational institutions, eg. Moodle tools (UOB) From SocialLearn developer community From e-science projects, eg. MyExperiment From Google: eg. Calendar; Gmail, Reader… From the global Gadget Directory: thousands more…
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SocialLearn: configuring my Gadget sets
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SocialLearn: configuring my Gadget sets
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SocialLearn gadgets dropped into iGoogle
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Embedding SocialLearn gadgets in a partner site (the OU’s PhD Skills)
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Cloudstream Recommender gadget
showing relevant activity in Cloudworks (test
example)
A generic PhD skill from the national Research Councils
framework
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Embedding SocialLearn gadgets in a partner site (the OU’s Cloudworks)
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SocialLearn: accessing my Gadgets from the browser toolbar on any website
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OpenLearn
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SocialLearn Space 1. Profile 2. User Interface 3. Social Graph 4. Services
OU VLE
Interoperability via Google Gadgets
The SocialLearn Space provides the ‘glue’ to connect activities, friends and recommendations
ORO Cloudworks
…other OU sites…
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“Services”: towards a suite of recommendation engines, both from OU and developer network
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Com
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People who bought this,
bought this… e.g.
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“Services”: towards a suite of recommendation engines, both from OU and developer network
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Nav
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Soci
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Com
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People who bought this,
bought this…
People who viewed this also viewed
this…
You have three friends in common… People who rate her also rate him…
e.g.
fast becoming commodity services
(not
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“Services”: towards a suite of recommendation engines, both from OU and developer network
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Nav
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Soci
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eput
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Com
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People who bought this,
bought this…
People who viewed this also viewed
this…
You have three friends in common… People who rate her also rate him…
e.g.
fast becoming commodity services
Con
tent
This resource is similar to this one…
(semantic + multimedia
search R&D)
indexing
(not
a c
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riorit
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“Services”: towards a suite of recommendation engines, both from OU and developer network
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Nav
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Soci
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Con
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Lear
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to L
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Com
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People who bought this,
bought this…
People who viewed this also viewed
this…
You have three friends in common… People who rate her also rate him…
This resource shows a counter-
example / supporting evidence…
This person is also trying to develop her planning…
e.g.
fast becoming commodity services services tuned for learning
Con
tent
This resource is similar to this one…
(semantic + multimedia
search R&D)
indexing
(not
a c
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riorit
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Core social moves (re-using Drupal’s feature-set)
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Following
Friending
Messaging
Groups
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Creating an ad hoc group for my friends
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sociallearn.org :: register, demo & movie
39 blog / more detailed talks @ www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn
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