EduGlu Sandbox

interesting paper, though the idea that learners are going to write scripts in a mashup learning scripting language seems maybe far-fetched

Really interesting paper on an environment for creating Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) by Wild et al. which I picked up from Terry Anderson’s blog.  As Terry says, the paper describes:

The Leisurely Historian has a nice post on what education can learn from the punk zine movement, which flourished around the time of punk. One could also expand it to any fanzine movement really (football fanzines would be another good example), where the DIY ethos makes them more valuable to a certain audience than the glossy, formal productions.

As the OpenLearn “Stage 2″ phase draws to a close and many of the team who set the project up move onto pastures new, its good to see the innovation continue. Back in the early days we knew there were two features that would make the site more appealing to users:
1. Something that recognised learners efforts and time on the site;