External Publications
9 publications | sociallearn
Liu, H., Macintyre, R. and Ferguson, R. (2012) Exploring Qualitative Analytics for E-Mentoring Relationships Building in an Online Social Learning Environment, The Second International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK12), Vancouver, Canada, ACM
Buckingham Shum, S. and Crick, R. (2012) Learning Dispositions and Transferable Competencies: Pedagogy, Modelling and Learning Analytics, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, (29 Apr-2 May), Vancouver, BC, ACM Press: New York
Ferguson, R. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2012) Social Learning Analytics: Five Approaches, Proc. 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, 29 Apr-2 May, Vancouver, BC
Little, S., Ferguson, R. and Rueger, S. (2011) Navigating and Discovering Educational Materials through Visual Similarity Search, EdMedia - World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal
Mwanza-Simwami, D., Kukulska-Hulme, A., Clough, G., Whitelock, D., Ferguson, R. and Sharples, M. (2011) Alpine Rendez-Vous STELLAR White Paper: Methods and Models of Next Generation Technology Enhanced Learning, Workshop: Methods and models of next generation technology enhanced learning at Alpine Rendezvous 2011, La Clusaz, France
Ferguson, R. (2011) Use of questions to facilitate social learning in a Web 2.0 environment, Revista de Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento, 8, 1
Ullmann, T., Ferguson, R., Buckingham Shum, S. and Crick, R. (2011) Designing an Online Mentoring System for Self-Awareness and Reflection on Lifelong Learning Skills, Workshop: 1st Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environments at The PLE Conference, Southampon, United Kingdom
Ullmann, T., Ferguson, R., Buckingham Shum, S. and Deakin-Crick, R. (2011) Designing an Online Mentoring System for Self-Awareness and Reflection on Lifelong Learning Skills, Workshop: 1st Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environments at The PLE Conference, Southampon, United Kingdom
Buckingham Shum, S. and Ferguson, R. (2010) Towards a social learning space for open educational resources, OpenED2010: Seventh Annual Open Education Conference, Barcelona, Spain
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Social Software is...

Interacting with other people not only forms the core of human social and psychological experience, but also lies at the centre of what makes the internet such a rich, powerful and exciting collection of knowledge media. We are especially interested in what happens when such interactions take place on a very large scale -- not only because we work regularly with tens of thousands of distance learners at the Open University, but also because it is evident that being part of a crowd in real life possesses a certain 'buzz' of its own, and poses a natural challenge. Different nuances emerge in different user contexts, so we choose to investigate the contexts of work, learning and play to better understand the trade-offs involved in designing effective large-scale social software for multiple purposes.
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