April 1st, 2008Welcome
SocialLearn is a vehicle for the UK Open University and its partners to rapidly prototype new ways to foster high quality learning in the open, participatory landscape unfolding on the Web.
We’re exploring wide-ranging scenarios and questions, such as:
- How can the production of open source educational resources be sustained on a long term basis?
- What principles underpin Web 2.0 learning ecologies?
- How can different tools be pulled together to work coherently for learners?
- How can the power of social networks, web 2.0 approaches and new technologies be used to benefit learners?
- What organisational and technical infrastructure will facilitate the kind of social, creative commons-based economics that are revolutionising sectors across society?
- What does an e-university look like in the new landscape of disaggregated learning service providers?
Track our progress as we develop our ideas, and consider partnering if you think you have a piece in the puzzle.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Seeing the mention of rapid prototyping made me wonder what, if any, relationship SociaLearn has to the development in OUBS of a ‘generic course team’ as a vehicle for responding rapidly to opportunities for non-standard, tailored teaching commissions. OK, most of the projects this ‘team’ will work on are likely to involve corporate or other external clients and partners, rather than focusing on individual learners. But assuming our generic CT will be working with web based media as well as anything else appropriate, and looking at the team involved with SociaLearn, it seemed to me that there is a missed opportunity for synergy. Just a thought…