PlugJam (http://plugjam.com) appears to offer a crucial piece of the open learning network puzzle. While it makes intuitive sense to allow seamless integration between campus-based apps and Web 2.0 apps, it’s much easier to think about such integrations than it is to actually pull them off. According the company’s website, “PlugJam is a solution for schools, colleges, and universities looking to bridge the gap between existing campus-based tools and Web 2.0 services, allowing students to use their favorite social networking environment or Web Service to access their campus-based resources.”

This illustration (also from PlugJam’s website) shows how the PlugJam open API facilitates interconnectivity between the campus enterprise and the cloud:

Among other things, PlugJam allows campuses to:

PlugJam has already built ”connectors” for Blackboard, Moodle, Peoplesoft Student, “identity management servers” and “portal servers”.

I can’t wait to see what this tool can do!

(For another take on PlugJam, see “Bringing Student ‘Stuff’ to Campus Enterprise Systems“.)