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The slide below gives a summary of the range of activities we are doing in this work and gives a flavour of the approach we are adopting - which is very much iteration between user evaluation and development. Summary of the OU Learning Design Project activities Andrew Brasher has been adapting the Compendium software to create a variant which can be used specifically for learning design purposes - CompendiumLD.
Andrew has done a lot of work - including development of a more coherent set of learning design icons, and in situ scaffolding and support for aspects of the design process. Facebook v Moodle < Virtual Learning » There’s an interesting thread on the integration of Moodle and Facebook on the moodle.org forums (easy to register) which I intend to pick up on in my keynote at tomorrow’s UK Moodlemoot.
Brian Mulligan, who will supply you liberally with Guinness and fine folk music at his local if you ever visit him in Sligo, kicks it off by expressing his concerns that Facebook is so popular with students that it might at some stage supplant Moodle. Other contributors mention privacy, security and advertising as problems with Facebook – and the fact that it relies on one list of “friends” while with Moodle you get a different (and correct) group of coursemates with each course you’re studying. Facebook is simply a different animal from Moodle and is not going to work well for formal learning where students need to be grouped together with a tutor or teacher for the duration of a course. Th Ou Shalt Blog » SlideShare.