open sensemaking communities project full details
Champion:
Simon Buckingham Shum
Professor of Learning Informatics
Participant(s):Simon Buckingham Shum, Marc Eisenstadt, Peter Scott, Michelle Bachler, Chris Denham, Kevin Quick, Jon Linney, Alex Little, Elia Tomadaki, Alexandra Okada
Timeline:01 Apr 2006
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Open Sensemaking Communities
Helping e-learners construct interpretations of open content courseware
The Open Content movement is concerned with enabling students and educators to access material, in order to then learn from it, and reuse it either in one?s studies or one's own courses. The core efforts to date has focused on enabling access, e.g. building the organizational/political will to release and license content, and in developing open infrastructures for educators to then publish and reassemble it. The key challenge in the next phase of the open content movement is to improve the support for prospective students to engage with and learn from the material, and with each other though peer learning support, in the absence of formally imposed study timetables and assessment deadlines. KMi is now engaged in developing the next generation of tools for e-learning and collaborative sensemaking for open content learning support.
Antonini, A., Coşar, S., Naja, I., Muhammad Salman, H., Jamie, M., Pasquale, I. and Giacinto, B. (2025). Smartphone as a Sensor in mHealth: Narrative Overview, SWOT Analysis, and Proposal of Mobile Biomarkers. Sensors, 25(12), https://oro.open.ac.uk/104648/.
Nambanoor Kunnath, S., Pride, D. and Knoth, P. (2022). Dynamic Context Extraction for Citation Classification. In: The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 20-23 Nov 2022, Virtual. https://oro.open.ac.uk/85520/.
Kunnath, S.N., Herrmannova, D., Pride, D. and Knoth, P. (2022). A Meta-analysis of Semantic Classification of Citations. Quantitative Science Studies, 2(4), pp. 1170–1215. https://oro.open.ac.uk/79616/.
Khare, P. (2020). Identifying and Processing Crisis Information from Social Media. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/69594/.
Chamberlain, L., Afroze, J., Cooper, V. and Collins, T. (2019). Representing children's rights from discussion through to illustration and interpretation. The Open University Children’s Research Centre and Amnesty UK International, Milton Keynes. https://oro.open.ac.uk/68276/.
Kear, K., Smith, A., Donelan, H., Mikroyannidis, A., Jones, A., Rosewell, J., Wermelinger, M., Connolly, T., Sanders, C., Peasgood, A., Williams, J., Moss, N. and Third, A. (2019). An Open Networking Lab for practical open education. In: OER19: Recentering Open, 10-11 Apr 2019, National University of Ireland, Galway. https://oro.open.ac.uk/60483/.
Kear, K., Smith, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Jones, A., Rosewell, J., Donelan, H., Wermelinger, M., Sanders, C., Third, A. and Connolly, T. (2018). The Open Networking Lab: an open online course for experiential learning of computer networking. In: Association for Learning Technology (ALT) annual conference 2018, 11-13 Sep 2018, Manchester. https://oro.open.ac.uk/57452/.
Rosewell, J., Kear, K., Jones, A., Smith, A., Donelan, H., Mikroyannidis, A., Peasgood, A., Sanders, C., Third, A., Wermelinger, M., Moss, N., Williams, J. and Connolly, T. (2018). Open Networking Lab: online practical learning of computer networking. In: The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference: Blended and online Learning: Changing the Educational Landscape, 10-12 Oct 2018, Aarhus University, Denmark. https://oro.open.ac.uk/56857/.
Holliman, R., Davies, G., Pearson, V., Collins, T., Sheridan, S., Brown, H., Hallam, J. and Russell, M. (2017). Planning for engaged research: a collaborative ‘Labcast’. In: Kucirkova, Natalia and Quinlan, Oliver eds. The Digitally Agile Researcher. London: Open University Press, pp. 88–106. https://oro.open.ac.uk/50411/.
Grand, A., Holliman, R., Collins, T. and Adams, A. (2016). "We muddle our way through": shared and distributed expertise in digital engagement with research. Journal of Science Communication, 15(4), pp. 1–23. https://oro.open.ac.uk/46686/.
d'Aquin, M. (2016). On the Use of Linked Open Data in Education: Current and Future Practices. In: Mouromtsev, Dmitry and d'Aquin, Mathieu eds. Open Data for Education: Linked, Shared, and Reusable Data for Teaching and Learning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (9500). Springer, pp. 3–15. https://oro.open.ac.uk/46309/.
Mouromtsev, D. and d'Aquin, M.E. (2016). Open Data for Education: Linked, Shared, and Reusable Data for Teaching and Learning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9500. Springer. https://oro.open.ac.uk/46308/.
Pontika, N., Knoth, P., Cancellieri, M. and Pearce, S. (2015). Fostering Open Science to Research using a Taxonomy and an eLearning Portal. In: iKnow: 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data Driven Business, 21-22 Oct 2015, Graz, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/44719/.
Holliman, R., Adams, A., Blackman, T., Collins, T., Davies, G., Dibb, S., Grand, A., Holti, R., Mckerlie, F., Mahony, N. and Wissenburg, A.E. (2015). An Open Research University. Milton Keynes: The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/44255/.
Zerr, S., d'Aquin, M., Marenzi, I., Taibi, D., Adamou, A. and Dietze, S. (2014). Towards analytics and collaborative exploration of social and linked media for technology-enchanced learning scenarios. In: 1st International Workshop on Dataset PROFIling & fEderated Search for Linked Data co-located with the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference, PROFILES@ESWC 2014, 26 May 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/42050/.
Hassler, B., Hennessy, S., Knight, S. and Connolly, T. (2014). Developing an open resource bank for interactive teaching of STEM: perspectives of school teachers and teacher educators. Journal of Interactive Media in Education https://oro.open.ac.uk/39308/.
Mikroyannidis, A., Okada, A., Scott, P., Rusman, E., Specht, M., Stefanov, K., Boytchev, P., Protopsaltis, A., Held, P., Hetzner, S., Kikis-Papadakis, K. and Chaimala, F. (2013). weSPOT: A personal and social approach to inquiry-based learning. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 19(14), pp. 2093–2111. https://oro.open.ac.uk/39263/.
Mikroyannidis, A. (2013). A personalised approach in informal and inquiry-based learning. In: 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2013), 06-08 May 2013, Aachen, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/39234/.
Rizzardini, R.H., Linares, B.H., Mikroyannidis, A. and Schmitz, H.C. (2013). Cloud services, interoperability and analytics within a ROLE-enabled personal learning environment. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 19(14), pp. 2054–2074. https://oro.open.ac.uk/39235/.
Gaved, M., Heath, T. and Eisenstadt, M. (2006). Wikis of Locality: Insights from the Open Guides. In: ACM 2006 International Symposium on Wikis: WikiSym '06, 21-23 Aug 2006, Odense, Denmark. https://oro.open.ac.uk/6206/.
