Our pilot roll-out of Google Apps is going well. To date we’ve invited 12,000 students and nearly 2,000 of them have signed up. At the moment it’s up to students what they do with the tools and we’re staying out. The possible uses for formal learning though are intriguing and I just had a chat […]
MyStuff – the OU’s eportfolio system we’ve built as a plug-in for Moodle – is now being used with several courses, and many more course teams are looking at how to make best use of it. I discussed issues of ownership in a previous posting. But what about some of the other design principles behind […]
One of the key philosophies behind the OU’s MyStuff and eportfolio initiatives elsewhere is that students should have complete ownership over their content. This is a vital concept which should help to nurture a sense of pride in the student in the materials they assemble and the ways in which they can present them. But […]