Well, work has started on the bprofcomm learning network with a meeting today with one of the key academics involved. The plan at this stage is to develop the main page with a minimum of features and have a small group of students access this and give some feedback on what they would like to see on the page. Most of the page is made up of RSS feeds from other locations like feedburner and yahoo pipes so once we have the initial page I expect the work required to maintain the site to be minimal.
The basic principles guiding this project are based on a paper and the slideshow that is viewable below.
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