OER Knowledge CloudConference Paper20102010/09Buckingham Shum, SimonFerguson, Rebeccasocial networkingweb 2.0iTunesCreative Commonssocial learningengWe identify a number of meanings of "Open", as part of the motivating rationale for a social media space tuned for learning, called SocialLearn. We discuss why online social learning seems to be emerging so strongly at this point, explore features of social learning, and identify some of the dimensions that we believe characterize the social learning design space, before describing the emerging design concept and implementation.http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/5086/6/Buckingham2_editat.pdfhttp://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/5086/6/Buckingham2_editat.pdfBuckingham2_editat.pdfBarcelona