CloudworksCurrent thoughts, future directions

Gráinne Conole, The Open University UK

23rd October 2008

Andrew Brasher, Paul Clark, Simon Cross, Juliette Culver, Martin Weller, Perry Williams

Andrew Brasher, Paul Clark, Simon Cross, Juliette Culver, Martin Weller, Perry Williams

Empirical evidence

Tool development

Trials & workshops

Materials & resources

‘Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects

that mediate the ties between peopleEngeström

‘Social networking makes little sense if we leave out the objects

that mediate the ties between peopleEngeström

Design framework for socialityEnabling practiceMimicking realityBuilding identityActualising self

Bouman et al.

Cloudworks

CloudworksFind and share designs

CloudworksFind and share designs

Web 2.0 principles: tagging, profiles, user generated

CloudworksFind and share designs

Web 2.0 principles: tagging, profiles, user generated

Clouds

Stormclouds

Resourcebank

Tools

People

But how do you develop the community???

But how do you develop the community???

RSS feeds

Follow and be followed

Friends

Embed

Aggregate

Share

Comment

Playlists

APIs

How can we encourage a culture of sharing ideas and designs?

Why has there been little uptake of educational repositories?

Can we apply web 2.0 principles to an educational context?

How can we encourage a culture of sharing ideas and designs?

Why has there been little uptake of educational repositories?

Can we apply web 2.0 principles to an educational context?

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Further information

• OU Learning design initiative

• http://ouldi.open.ac.uk

• Sharing designs - Cloudworks

• http://cloudworks.open.ac.uk

• Conference paper

• Conole, G., Culver, J., Well, M., Williams, P., Cross, S., Clark, P. and Brasher, A. (accepted), Cloudworks: social networking for learning design, ASCILITE 2008 conference, Melbourne, December 2008.