Technology/Concept
OpenAcademic can create a learning environment for your school/district or insitution. This environment includes all of the following pieces:
- a public facing web presence
- departmental intranets
- club/extracurricular sites
- online class sites
- a personal workspace for all members of the school community; this workspace includes web-accessible file storage, social bookmarking, a blog, a podcasting platform, and a presentation/portfolio creator
- a single user base -- no duplicate data entry, no need to synchronize users between multiple databases
Within your organisation, you can choose to use all of the above options, or only the pieces you want. As your needs change over time, the solutions offered by OpenAcademic can shift with you.
Current technologies/approaches offered:
- Podcasting
- Safe social networking
- Tagging
- Informal learning
- Learner centric
- ePortfolios
- Personal Learning Environments
- Blogging
- Wikis
