EduGlu Sandbox

Andraz Tori from Zemanta gave a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo about making it easier for people to create content, which made my ears perk up.

The Open University has just launched a Darwin website including links to free taster courses on Darwin, iTunesU podcasts, YouTube videos, a discussion forum and a Devolve Me game that let’s you upload a photo of yourself and see how you would have looked 3.7 million years ago, before moisturiser and mascara were invented.

I’m involved with an exciting conference happening in December about how games can be used for more than just entertainment. I’ll be talking about Operation: Sleeper Cell (which you should check out if you haven’t - and if you’ve ever wanted to try out an alternate reality game, it’s also an easy one to get into).

Well that’s not strictly true. During my first year of employment with the Open University (OU) in 2002-2003 I undertook a 10 point course on web design which was being piloted. I think it might have evolved into Design and the web.

I've done a guest post for Ken Udas over at Penn State. It's called Exploring new ways of being open, and sets out some of the evolution of the term 'open' in education, from the Open University's perspective.

But more importantly, it contains a Bill Bragg quote, so go take a look.