EduFeedr is a tool for aggregating content from open online courses with blogs. It addresses the problem of how to follow and support learning activities across different web applications like course wikis and student blogs. The lightweight tool uses open standards to collect and link content from various sources into a centralized course feed, without requiring plugins. While still in development, EduFeedr currently demonstrates how student blog posts and comments can be visualized together to help create personal learning environments and support open education.

1. EduFeedr — Tool for Open Courses with Blogs
Hans Põldoja, Teemu Leinonen
Tallinn University, Aalto University

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3. (massive) open online
courses

7. Learning content
link
link and tag
link and tag Course wiki and blog
link
link and tag
link link
Student blogs
RSS

8. Problem

9. How to follow and support
learning activities which cross
the borders of different Web
2.0 applications?

10. Vision

14. Requirements and limitations
• Support for all major blogging platforms using
open standards (RSS, Atom, trackback, pingback)
• No special plug-ins should be required on the
student blogs
• Only teacher has an user account in EduFeedr,
which allows her to modify the EduFeedr settings
• Anyone has read access to aggregated course
content

15. Design methodology

16. Design methodology
• Lightweight prototyping
• Scenario-based design
• Participatory design sessions
• User stories
• Paper prototyping

17. Current
implementation of
EduFeedr

18. http://www.edufeedr.net

26. ManyEyes visualization

27. Downloads
• OPML file with blog posts feeds
• OPML file with blog comments feeds
• vCard file for Address Book
• Tab separated file with social network data

28. Current limitations

29. Current limitations
• Comments feed is currently located only for
Blogger and WordPress
• Linking student posts with the assignments
• Linking comments with the participants
• Unrelated posts in the course feed
• Only recent items are available in the RSS/Atom
feeds

30. Future plans

31. Participant profile

32. Connecting blog comments with participants

33. Connecting blog posts with assignments

34. Using a nickname

35. Value for the open education
• Directory of open courses
• Learners can create their personal learning
environments
• Can be used as a central component of the
learning environment or just as an enrollment tool

36. Thank You!
Hans Põldoja http://www.edufeedr.net
Research Associate
Tallinn University, Estonia Follow us:
http://blog.edufeedr.org
hans.poldoja@tlu.ee Twitter: @EduFeedr
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