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MUP/PLE lecture series
This event took place on Tuesday 05 July 2011 at 14:00

 
Martin Wolpers

The lecture will discuss ways to collect, share and distil usage information in order to enable personalized support for learning activities. After motivating the need for new ways of aggregating usage information, we will discuss a format to represent usage (meta-)data, discuss frameworks to collect usage (meta-)data and how such data can contribute to a personalized software intended for the support for learning activities.

 
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Social Software is...


Social Software
Social Software can be thought of as "software which extends, or derives added value from, human social behaviour - message boards, musical taste-sharing, photo-sharing, instant messaging, mailing lists, social networking."

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.