SteveB's Social Learning Scoop

When designing a website, what are some of the best ways to make it responsive and easy to use?

The Guardian
Google lacks instinct
The Guardian
More than four years later, his tantalising insight into Google's lack of instinctive design still rings true – and nowhere is this more evident than in its social media product, Google Plus.

What's the most 'natural' way to learn? It might surprise you
Washington Post
3) A child learns to play a video game by being taught by a more experienced player.

Summary Some thoughts from a gathering in Cambridge where we discussed Catherine Howe’s report for the East of England Local Government Association First of all ***thank you*** to Catherine for allowing Puffles and I to gatecrash what was otherwise...

Social Media Strategy in 8 steps – an infographic. A recent study by the Altimeter Group [states] that “most companies feel they have fairly coherent social strategies”, but given the advanced nature of the sample i.e. social strategists, large organizations, etc. my sense is that the findings may not represent the experiences of the majority of companies that are using social media. 

There are a lot of little-known Twitter tools that don't see the light of day on sites like Edudemic. So I thought this would be a good time to start fixing that.

While clever word smiths, comedians and business owners were trying to compose their wittiest 140 character tweets, millions of others were rushing to Google Plus. Google Plus gained an additional 90 million users over the ...

Marketing Best Practice With Google Plus Business Pages
Business 2 Community
Google Plus business Page for Marketing is an indispensable tool for savvy B2B Marketers and enterprises.

Keynote, ICELW, New York, 12 June 2014

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Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them.

There is an article in the Boston Review by Thomas Leddy called "Are MOOCs Good for Students?" In this article Leddy claims that

"MOOCs pose a great threat to the most important value of higher education: 'literacy.' By 'literacy' I mean, very broadly, the ability to read, think about, and intelligently respond (both orally and in writing) to the literature of any field of study. Thus, implementation of MOOCs for university credit is bad because it is bad for our students."

The Framework presents a holistic view of 21st century teaching and learning that combines a discrete focus on 21st century student outcomes (a blending

When I look at apps like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Vine, etc. in iOS 7, they match the new "flat" environment. They just look outdated by comparison. Developers have had six years to adopt Apple's style, and now they have ...