Making Use of Social Networking Infrastructures to Support Educational Content Creation and Usage

This chapter deals with another exciting area: how is it possible to make use of emerging social networking infrastructures to support educational content creation and usage? This chapter presents the case of myCourse, its architecture, and its application. The myCourse Framework (consisting of the myCourse platform, the associated servicee, and business models, as well as relevant tools and technologies) aims to help learners create highly individualised (Web) services to meet their needs, whether for meeting educational, business, or self-development purposes. It also enables dynamically integrate people's multidimensional profiles and provide a roadmap for creating social networking services to support educational service provision. Finally, myCourse helps exploit the wisdom of the crowds (crowdsourcing) in providing better educational services, while at the same time promoting open innovation and enhancements for educational service providers.