1. More information
The site currently has ca.2000 registered users and over
45,000 unique visitors from 160 countries.
Cloudworks is being developed by the Institute of www.cloudworks.ac.uk
Educational Technology at The Open University. It is part of
the Open University Learning Design Initiative and is funded
by both JISC and The Open University.
Cloudworks@open.ac.uk What is Cloudworks?
Cloudworks is a place for people interested in sharing,
finding and discussing educational ideas and
experiences.
Who is it for?
Anyone with an interest either formally or informally in
education. You don’t have to be an experienced
educator or social networker to use the site. The target
audience is practitioners in HE and FE (e.g. lecturers,
educational technologists, librarians, accessibility
For a simple video introduction go to officers, managers and policy makers etc) although the
www.cloudworks.ac.uk/about/ site may also be of interest to other educational sectors.
What can I use it for?
Asking a question
Discussing a problem
Sharing an idea or experience
Collecting related resources together
Showcasing your work
Finding inspiration
Debating an issue

2. A Cloud is an idea, question, tool or activity Tags are keywords assigned to Clouds, Click here for more
related to learning and teaching. Cloudscapes and people. Click here for a list . info about the site.
A Cloudscape is a Click to see, and add to, a Search for people by
Finding your way around
collection of Clouds. list of events and key dates. name or institution.
Click here to
Particularly quickly and easily
interesting or set up a Cloud
active Your Name (new Clouds can
Cloudscapes are be edited or even
featured here. If deleted so don’t
you would like to be afraid to have a
suggest a go).
Cloudscape,
please contact
the team. Click on the drop-
down arrow by
your name to
A Cloudstream is access this
a list of activity. shortcuts list.
This is the
Cloudstream for
the site but you
Use this list to find
can also see
the Clouds with
Cloudstreams for
the most recent
yourself or a
activity.
particular RSS feeds can be set up for
Cloudscape. most pages on the site.