{"id":5185,"date":"2020-07-02T05:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T05:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/support\/?page_id=5185"},"modified":"2020-07-02T05:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T05:14:45","slug":"course-feed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/support\/studying-courses\/course-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Course feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<div class=\"floatright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:Finger-network-touch.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finger-network-touch.jpg\" src=\"\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/thumb\/e\/e2\/Finger-network-touch.jpg\/320px-Finger-network-touch.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"161\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The OERu uses the Internet as the learning platform rather than delivering courses via single application like a learning management system.\n<\/p>\n<p>Learners interact and communicate using a variety of different online technologies which are aggregated together using a live course feed.\n<\/p>\n<p>On this page you can read about the technologies that make up the OERu learning environment and how to use the course feed.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:both;\">\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"OERu.27s_open_source_Next_Generation_Digital_Learning_Environment_.28NGDLE.29\">OERu&#8217;s open source Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE)<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"center\">\n<div class=\"floatnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:OERu_technology_wheel.svg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OERu technology wheel.svg\" src=\"\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/thumb\/e\/e3\/OERu_technology_wheel.svg\/800px-OERu_technology_wheel.svg.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Mastodon<\/b> is a communication tool and is OERu&#8217;s equivalent of Twitter. It allows posts of up to 500 characters. It is not commercial like Twitter so there is no advertising.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Blogs<\/b> are also communication tools which you can use to post in more depth and include other media such as images, audio or video. We suggest the use of three free blogging tools &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/\">Medium<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/\">Blogger<\/a> &#8211; but you can use any blog you wish. We aggregate your posts by means of a post hashtag or label.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>WEnotes<\/b> is a microblogging tool found on most course pages so you can make comments or ask questions right inside the page.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Hypothes.is<\/b> can be used to hold discussions, read socially, organize your research, and take personal notes. Find out more <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/web.hypothes.is\/\">here<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b> Semantic Scuttle<\/b> is a social bookmarking tool which enables you to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b> Discourse<\/b> is the OERu&#8217;s <a href=\"\/support\/studying-courses\/course-forums\" title=\"OERu learner support\/Studying courses\/Course forums\">forum<\/a> tool.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Anatomy_of_the_course_feed\">Anatomy of the course feed<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Every course has a course feed page where postings from the various communications tools are pulled together using the course hashtag\/label e.g. #LiDA101.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the Course feed you can see:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> the source of the post,\n<\/li>\n<li> when it was posted (time stamp),\n<\/li>\n<li> a link to the original post,\n<\/li>\n<li> who posted it and a link to their profile, and\n<\/li>\n<li> an extract of the post.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"floatleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wikieducator.org\/File:OERu_course_feed.svg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OERu course feed.svg\" src=\"\/\/wikieducator.org\/images\/thumb\/4\/4a\/OERu_course_feed.svg\/600px-OERu_course_feed.svg.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"698\" class=\"img-responsive\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.016 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.019 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 18\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 46\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 78\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key we_en-mw_:pcache:idhash:182876-0!*!0!!*!2!* and timestamp 20200702033843 and revision id 1056527\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/support\/studying-courses\/course-annotations\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/support\/studying-courses\/course-blog\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OERu uses the Internet as the learning platform rather than delivering courses via single application like a learning management system. 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