Social Learning and Transcending Course Boundaries in Cooperation with Blackboard Software

by Jarkko Elo, Diaconia University of Applied Sciences

In case you haven't figured it out yet, this was about using Elgg with Blackboard. It was a short session, and focussed more on the technical implementation that how Elgg was actually being used by people, which was a shame, as I'd have been interested in knowing more about that side of things. They view Elgg as a personal learning environment, but were also using it for some of the things we might use organisation sites for - instructors setting up sites for all students taking a particular course/subject. I'm not sure how this sits with the concept of a PLE - seems that if students are required to use it in certain ways, this is more MLE.