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…and who are OpenLearners? It’s a question that’s been in my head for quite a while now.

Each week I run the stats which show how many people have visited the site overall, and how many have visited LabSpace and LearningSpace in particular. We report how many people have registered on OpenLearn, and how many people who have visited the site have registered on an OU course in the same session. We keep track on the top ten units, dwell time, page views

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Prof. Martin Weller of The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology is running a FLOSScom summer university which seeks to bring together students /
educators / those with open source experience to develop a toolkit for learning
the open source way.

The idea is that participants collaborate on the toolkit project and in the end produce something which is of use to others, similar to this

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Well, after a long(ish) pregnancy the OpenLearn Netvibes Universe has finally been born. You can find it here http://www.netvibes.com/openlearn

We’re the first University in Europe to have representation in a Universe (in fact Tom Hadfield’s work on the Harvard Universe is the only other University Universe I’m aware of).

We don’t yet show up in the search so I’m not sure which category we fall under (I assume it will either be `organisations’ or `non-profit’), but either way I’m hoping that i… Continue

Well, after a long(ish) pregnancy the OpenLearn Netvibes Universe has finally been born. We’re the first University in Europe to have representation in a Universe (in fact Tom Hadfield’s work on the Harvard Universe is the only other University Universe I’m aware of).

We don’t yet show up in the search so I’m not sure which category we fall under (I assume it will either be `organisations’ or `non-profit’), but either way I’m hoping that it will help get the OpenLearn message and material out t… Continue

This week is a big one for us, we've just reached the half a million unique visitors number! I've recently gone through the list of all the countries that our registered users come from, and there are representatives from over 160 countries!!

Fantastic stuff. The best bit is the new Google maps feature which has been incorporated into our instant messaging service - you can quickly scour the globe for people online and then discuss the unit you are studying. It's great to see the littl

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