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The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has been growing rapidly, opening up
new opportunities for widening participation (Willinsky, 2006). OpenLearn is an OER
pilot project developed by the UK Open University (OU) [http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn],
and launched in October 2006, supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
OpenLearn has published 3371 hours in the LearningSPace and 5194 in the LabSpace of
OERs designed specifically for distance learning (the OU’s core business), and covers
a range of subjects from arts and history to science and nature. There are more than
300 units at all study levels from access to higher education, graduation and postgraduation.
Our current work is to investigate how these tools can be used to foster open sensemaking
communities (Buckingham Shum, 2005) around the OERs, that is, the interpretative work
that must take place around any resource for learning to take place. How can we support
this critical activity in an OER context when learners must find and engage with peers
themselves, if they do not wish to study alone?
This paper introduces the e-learning environment that has been developed after the
first year of OpenLearn, focusing on the uses made of two sensemaking support tools,
Compendium for knowledge mapping, and FlashMeeting for videoconferencing. |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/249376 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/249377 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/249378 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/249379 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/249380 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/249381 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/250350 |
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Okada, Alexandra ; Tomadaki, Eleftheria ; Buckingham Shum, Simon and Scott, Peter
(2007). Combining knowledge mapping and videoconferencing for open sensemaking communities.
In: Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning, 26-28 Sep 2007, Utah State University. |
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Okada, Alexandra ; Tomadaki, Eleftheria ; Buckingham Shum, Simon and Scott, Peter
(2007). Combining knowledge mapping and videoconferencing for open sensemaking communities.
In: Open Education 2007: Localizing and Learning, 26-28 Sep 2007, Utah State University.
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Combining knowledge mapping and videoconferencing for open sensemaking communities |
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