I’ve been pondering the extent to which I could pull in OpenLearn resources into the mindmaps (eg a learning outcome explorer and OpenLearn metaglossary just fell out – http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/04/05/scraperwiki-powered-openlearn-searches-learning-outcomes-and-glossary-items/ – as did an OpenLearn image browser ( http://blog.ouseful.info/2012/04/20/asset-stripping-openlearn-images/ ), but I don’t really see the point? (I think I’ll add a map generator based around searches into learning outcomes as well as by keyword search though, and that could then hang course units as single branches off learning outcome branches? Another possibility would be to use the ‘related course’ linkage from data.open.ac.uk data to try to cluster possibly related resources etc etc, but again, in all honesty, why bother? No-one’s really ever going to make use of this stuff.).

The main intention of this exercise was more to explore how we could create annotatable ‘scaffolds’ that provided a view over a set of OpenLearn resources, maybe as a way of feeding potentially useful resources/units into SocialLearn pathways. (I really should get round to adding links tothe mindmap that point to the OpenLearn units.)