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

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...

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?

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

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...

Weighing Fruit with 3D Touch

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...