July 10th, 2008The Web 2.0-native learner’s PLE
One of the breakout groups at Workshop 2.0 was led by Martin Weller. A group gathered around a projector and using Compendium Martin mapped their thoughts on what a typical PLE (Personal Learning Environment) already looks like for many of the group, which one can anticipate will only continue to grow in sophistication:
Some learners will be happy running 20 web apps, while others will want to access this ecosystem via a coherent web interface. Currently one would do this via iGoogle, Netvibes, Facebook etc, if the apps have widgets in these different walled gardens.
In SocialLearn, we aim to move beyond web-feed based interoperability and visual clustering of apps on the webtop, with SL-aware apps communicating via the API, so that the learner’s profile can track and intelligently manage the flow of information and events to support their activity:
…with other for free and for fee learning content and services integrated, as we move towards the open marketplace, e.g…
July 11th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Facebook does this to a certain extent through it’s applications – eg even a year ago facebook could act as an interface to third party web apps through Facebook platfrom apps: http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/010479.html )
When I originally hacked StringLE ( http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle ), the string’n’glue lesrning environment together, the idea was that rather than embed apps in iframes, they’d become integrated into a Stringle display surface via their APIs.
A halfway point was to utilise the idea of ’roundtripping’ ( e.g. http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/009018.html ) using services such as delicious that could both capture links from third party apps used within the Stringle iframe, and then re-expose those links through a delicious feed in the navigation sidebar.
Looking back over stringle, I still think it’s a good idea, even if the execution is ropey… 😉 Still, it did only take 20-30 hrs of just my time to do, which comes out as v cheap on my meeting/project cost calculator!
September 26th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Glad to see this diagram online (I’m currently in Tony’s session where he presented this diagram at the OpenEd 2008 conference). Very impressive; I am enthused to follow this closely.