OU on Facebook

The Open University have found an interesting way to let students bring their courses into Facebook…

After a month or so of teasing, the first major push of our skunkworks OU Course Profiles Facebook app went live yesterday. Since mid-September, we’ve been quietly running an application on Facebook that allows OU students to declare the OU courses they’ve taken, are taking or intend to take.

… our intention has not been to develop a marketing tool … we have been more interested in exploring the potential for cross-unit, agile application development … and the possibility of leveraging both the Facebook social network, and our users’ self-declared OU course codes network, as a way of building OU student communities.

More here.