Mashing Up the PLERSS Edition

Tony Hirst

Dept of Communication and Systems, The Open University, UK

PLE – the very idea

PLE – the very idea

Joining in

PLE – the very idea

Joining in

Mashup activism

Personal

Learning

Environment

Beware the category mistake

Gilbert Ryle

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http://tinyurl.com/62v83f

The user context

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• Personal• Portable• Social• Lesson level

• Institutional• Monolithic• Private• Course level

Portable content for personal learning environments?

Content

Structure

Context

Pacing

So let's mash it up...

...mash it up

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If it uses “glue logic” then it is a mashup...

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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”

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Uncourse blog emergent link structure

http://digitalworlds.wordpress.com/

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Search glue:

http://live.comjust add &format=rss

Where's the feed?

Where's the feed?

Glue Logic

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/xmltools/dwCommentFeedsOPML.php

aka http://tinyurl.com/4vq4nt

Presentation glue:

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/opmldashboard/

http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/stringle

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Stringle – a string’n’glue learning environment

Pipework

- search and filtering- maps- page scraping and APIs- visualisation

http://pipes.yahoo.com

http://ouseful.info