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Compendium for e-Learning
Simon Buckingham Shum
06.12.06
In a major project at the UK Open University, Compendium is being developed to support e-learning over the Net. Augmenting freely available learning resources are social software tools for peer-peer collaboration, plus Compendium for information management and concept/argument mapping.
The OU is publishing thousands of hours of its distance learning resources for free access, as part of its participation in the Open Educational Resources movement. These are all delivered in the open source Moodle environment. Compendium is now integrated with Moodle, so that any resource can be annotated with Compendium maps, each of which is itself an open eduational resource (OER), licensed under Creative Commons, and available for re-editing.
In the context of Open Sensemaking Communities [see project link] when unknown learners and educators will access OERs, and possibly start to collaborate around them either to study, or improve them, Compendium provides a way to visually track the connections between multimedia fragments, ideas, and arguments. OERs can be resequenced into new learning paths, the hyperlinked maps for which can then be shared and further edited.
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