Alex Little's profile document
Description for Alex Little
Alex Little
Alex Little
Alex
Little
Developer of Social Software
I was part of KMi's contribution to the OpenLearn (http://oci.open.ac.uk) team, mainly developing and integrating BuddySpace/MSG messaging systems into the Moodle VLE.
Currently working for VSO, see http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/alex
The Open University account for Alex Little
al2273
Alex Little's membership at KMi
Alex Little's participation in MSG
MSG
MSG
2006-03-01
The World's Simplest Messenger
MSG a web application that allows you to use the basic functionality of the earlier BuddySpace Instant Messaging system within a standard web browser. This makes it ideal for use in environments where software can not be installed, or on networks where Internet access is restricted by firewalls and proxy servers, or where performing the installation is just cumbersome for the users.
Alex Little's participation in Open Sensemaking Communities
Open Sensemaking Communities
Open Sensemaking Communities
2006-04-01
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.