Figure:Ground - PLEs and the Flexible Learning Environment Tony Hirst Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

http://flickr.com/photos/15267290@N03/2083329049

http://flickr.com/photos/banlon1964/329984504

http://flickr.com/photos/chromewaves/2171216654/

http://flickr.com/photos/flamsmark/282468560/

http://flickr.com/photos/myguerrilla/331487507/

http://flickr.com/photos/mmmazzoni/117571590

http://flickr.com/photos/briansolis/1411905457/

http://tinyurl.com/62v83f

The user context

Figure:ground Personal Portable Social Lesson level Institutional Monolithic Private Course level

Personal

Portable

Social

Lesson level

Institutional

Monolithic

Private

Course level

Portable content for personal learning environments?

Content Structure Context Pacing

Content

Structure

Context

Pacing

http://openlearnigg.corank.com/

MIT, Yale and UC Berkeley

MIT Courseware for High Schools - in a Grazr Widget

MIT OCW for Schools: Nested screenscraping

Take it or leave it…

Yale Opencourseware Lasagne

Pipes involved in the mix… Yale OCW courses : extracts a list of courses from the main Yale OCW courses page; Yale OCW Courses (Syllabus): extracts the syllabus for a particular course; Yale OCW Courses (Class Sessions): extracts the list of sessions for a particular course; Yale OCW Courses (Single Class Session - Assets): extracts a list of media assets for a course; Yale OCW Courses (Single Class Session - Readings): extracts the list of readings for a course.

Yale OCW courses : extracts a list of courses from the main Yale OCW courses page;

Yale OCW Courses (Syllabus): extracts the syllabus for a particular course;

Yale OCW Courses (Class Sessions): extracts the list of sessions for a particular course;

Yale OCW Courses (Single Class Session - Assets): extracts a list of media assets for a course;

Yale OCW Courses (Single Class Session - Readings): extracts the list of readings for a course.

UCBerkeley YouTube Playlist Course Browser & Video Lecture Search

For the playlist browser… Take one YouTube username Extract the goodness as a feed via the Youtube Gdata API Take each playlist identifier and generate a URL to the corresponding Gdata/Atom feed Bundle together the playlist feed URLs using OPML (Pass each feed through a feed augmentation pipe, if required) Pipe into an OPML widget

Take one YouTube username

Extract the goodness as a feed via the Youtube Gdata API

Take each playlist identifier and generate a URL to the corresponding Gdata/Atom feed

Bundle together the playlist feed URLs using OPML

(Pass each feed through a feed augmentation pipe, if required)

Pipe into an OPML widget

For the search tool… Take one YouTube username Take one or more user search terms, as required Create a Gdata URL: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?q=skeletal+biology&author=ucberkeley Augment the search result feed items with enclosures to the corresponding video

Take one YouTube username

Take one or more user search terms, as required

Create a Gdata URL:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?q=skeletal+biology&author=ucberkeley

Augment the search result feed items with enclosures to the corresponding video

Blogged uncourses Category based blog “ Syllabus” outlined as a set of topics to be covered Blog posts broadly themed by week, but free to wander… Category and tag based feeds mean the “uncourse” is “self-disaggregating”

Category based blog

“ Syllabus” outlined as a set of topics to be covered

Blog posts broadly themed by week, but free to wander…

Category and tag based feeds mean the “uncourse” is “self-disaggregating”

That’s what I’m talking about…

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com

Uncourse blog emergent link structure

That’s what I’m talking about…

OAI-ORE

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange Now available in Atom flavour…

That’s what I’m talking about…

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

That’s what I’m talking about…

http://ouseful.info