1. Cloudworks
A social networking site for finding,
Student Student Tutor
Tasks Resources Tasks
sharing and discussing learning and Each student selects three
countries
teaching ideas and designs
Check resource ok
for Level 1 students
LO – skills: how to
collaborate with Group nominate person to
others eliminate multiple entries
and agree dispute process
Library key skills support
pack: internet
Find and retrieve data
LO – skills:
about these three countries
searching of data
and assessing
Internet
quality of data
Post research to group wiki What method
used to post?
Gráinne Conole,
Written / audio etc.
Wiki
DONE: What if they
need more help?
The Open University UK Forum
What else could
DONE: Could Rest of group tutor be doing?
nominated person Check summary and
have greater role? post comment
http://cloudworks.ac.uk Each student posts at least one
comment on forum about experience
of achieving learning outcomes
Tutor reads comments and
Reflect on tutor feedback
gives feedback to group

2. Cloudworks
RSS feeds Playlists
Follow and
be followed
Friends
APIs
Many repositories of good practice,
but how do you develop the community???
Share
Embed
Comment
Aggregate

3. Clouds and Cloudscapes

4. Clouds and Cloudscapes

5. Clouds and Cloudscapes

6. Clouds and Cloudscapes
Learning &
teaching ideas

7. Clouds and Cloudscapes
Resources
Learning &
teaching ideas

8. Clouds and Cloudscapes
Resources
Learning &
teaching ideas
Tools

9. Clouds and Cloudscapes
Designs or
case studies
Resources
Learning &
teaching ideas
Tools

10. Clouds and Cloudscapes
Designs or
case studies
Resources
Learning &
teaching ideas
Tools
Questions
or problems

11. Clouds and Cloudscapes
Designs or
case studies
Resources
Learning &
teaching ideas
Tools
Questions
or problems

12. Clouds and Cloudscapes
Designs or
Conference
case studies
Resources Workshop
Learning & Course
teaching ideas team
Research
Tools
area
Questions
Project
or problems

21. Finding things

22. Further info
• Useful links
• OULDI: http://ouldi.open.ac.uk
• OLNet: http://olnet.org
• Relevant publications
• Conole, G., Culver, J., Well, M., Williams, P., Cross, S., Clark, P. and Brasher, A.
(2008), Cloudworks: social networking for learning design, Ascilite Conference,
30th Nov – 3rd Dec 2008, Melbourne, www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/
melbourne08/procs/conole.pdf
• Conole, G. and McAndrew, P. (submitted), A new approach to supporting the
design and use of OER: Harnessing the power of web 2.0, M. Edner and M.
Schiefner (eds), Looking toward the future of technology enhanced education:
ubiquitous learning and the digital nature

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