Mupple

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

Portable content for personal learning environments?

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.

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

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

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”

That’s what I’m talking about…

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com

Uncourse blog emergent link structure

OAI-ORE

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

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

http://ouseful.info

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by Tony Hirst on Sep 16, 2008

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