The Open University’s SocialLearn Project is investigating what it means to tune social media spaces for learning.

This work covers:

  • conceptual foundations for social learning and sensemaking
  • human-centred design perspectives on open, social systems
  • prototyping and evaluation

Our immediate target groups are the hundreds of thousands of users in the Open University’s online communities. In parallel, we’ll be sharing the project’s thinking via this blog, twitter and slideshare, and seeking partners to refine and resource a public, open source offering.

Contact the project manager Mark Glaister to explore potential collaborations: m.glaister ATSIGN open.ac.uk

Open Social Learning 2009