EduGlu Sandbox

There are a number of reasons why I think it’s great that the OU is making its content available in external social web spaces, one is that it’s a good idea to `fish where the fish are’ (note to self, stop reading so many US blogs), and second is that these external services often give us functionality that we just don’t have in house.

If you keep up with things OU then you probably know that daliance in YouTube has been turned into an excellent fully-fledged OU YouTube channel, that we also have a great iTunes U presence and that we’ve made a whole load of material taken from OU courses available on OpenLearn.

All of these (except YouTube) offer RSS feeds and Tony’s YouTube grazr widget mentioned in this post has solved the YouTube RSS issue for me.  So this afternoon I put some OpenLearn and OU YouTube feeds into the open university google reader account, tagged items within both feeds with the same term where appropriate and made public the feed of the tag.

I think this is nice cos it allows us to pull related content together and make it available via RSS from across our array of social media presences.  So, if you want a static html page of (some, currently) of our OpenLearn units and YouTube vids relating to our Arts course you can visit this page.  If you want to get a little widget of that for your blog or social network then Google Reader allows you to do that

Some time I’ll get around to adding more content and including some iTunes feeds.

If you want to follow the OU’s shared items then subscribe to this feed.

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