Social Learning Networks and the end of the LMS
Since the 1980s, the world has had technology that allows for the sharing of information. This is what the internet is built upon. This is what e-commerce literally capitalized on. This is what education has largely failed to do, but is making progress in.As social...
A Design Exploration of 3D Touch: Feedback
Part I of this article looked at various affordances and conventions surrounding 3D Touch, such has how to visually represent depth and the ability for the user to differentiate between 3D Touch-enabled buttons and areas of the screen, and those that just allow for...
Does Empathy exist in Virtual Reality?
A few days ago, a story went around about modder Joseph Delgado, who built a Grand Theft Auto: V for use in VR. Shown below is the scene he posted. via Joseph Delgado After playing the game in VR, he posted the following: “I feel horrible about making this. You...
The Many Definitions of Open Education
When I first heard of Open Education a few years back, it was from David Wiley’s concept of Four R’s that I read about in a blog post. Since then it seems that Open Ed has come to mean different things to different people, so I thought I’d write a bit about what it...
Do eReaders really need Touch Screens?
Kindles are great little eReaders. The battery lasts a a month and you can read all the books youwant on it. After traveling to multiple countries and living abroad with it, my muscles have to thank Amazon for allowing me to leave the burden of physical books behind....
Open Textbooks: The Missing Link
After attending #opened15 last week, there were lots of sessions talking about open textbooks. Some folks are for, and some against, with Amanda Coolidge weighing in this morning on the real purpose of these projects: to save students money...
What do students get when they sign up for an ‘Online Course’?
Another day, another eLearning job. I’ve made the move to Canada and am working at a large technical school in Vancouver area, and though my office has many more resources than my last position, the systematic issues persist, ones that seem to be pervasive through the...
The 3D Touch Revolution is coming…but you might have to wait for it.
As Apple demoed in early September of this year, 3D Touch was the “the next generation of Multi-touch”. The only implementation we’ve seen thus far from apple and in other 3rd party apps is quite simple. We got App Shortcuts, Peek and Pop and that’s it.This means...
Weighing Fruit with 3D Touch
https://youtu.be/SytXwjGGikA A couple of days ago, FlexMonkey’s work on Plum-O-Meter made the rounds, so I need to first give a shout out to him and his work. Thanks! http://flexmonkey.blogspot.co.uk/ So I took what FlexMonkey created, added an extension to UITouch...
A design exploration of 3D Touch: Affordance
When 3D Touch was first announced a couple of months ago, I was excited about the potential for new interactions on touch screen devices as it quite literally adds another dimension to how we use them.When I first saw the videos highlighting its use, I was...