EduGlu Sandbox

Starting in September I am going to be the Director for the SocialLearn project here at the Open University, for 6 months at least. The Vice Chancellor and senior management have agreed to fund us so we are pushing ahead on a punishing development schedule to have something usable by next February (with releases along the way).

I was asked to provide some thoughts on digital literacies for the Vice Chancellor, but rather than just do a dead email, in keeping with the spirit of the topic, I thought I'd put them in a blog post.

This isn't the research related view, but rather a personal perspective. Here are what I think are interesting about what we might term new digital literacies:

When five Naval pilots marched across the stage at Saturday's degree ceremony in London they certainly got the loudest round of applause. They looked very dapper as they marched across the stage at the Barbican, saluted at the Vice-Chancellor, shook her hand and returned to their seats. There's just something ...

Last week the Open University joined Stanford, MIT, Yale and other world-class universities in publishing materials via Apple’s iTunes U service.

Apple made available content from a few European universities for the first time on iTunes U this morning - including from the Open University. Our Vice Chancellor, Professor Brenda Gourley, said:
The iTunes U project is an exciting new opportunity for anyone, anywhere in the world to gain easy access to Open University courses. [...]

Tony outlined some web 2.0 business models the other day. Stephen Downes picked up on this, and commented