Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

Start pages like Netvibes and Pageflakes are not specifically designed for educational purposes, but as Malinka Ivanova points out, they are flexible enough to potentially support self-organized learning and research environments. In this presentation, she compares various start pages in terms of a model of multichannel learning in which learners may play a a wide range of roles: authors, contributors, distributors, searchers, moderators, reviewers, editors, researchers, or evaluators.