Learning and social media

Social web learning design

Martin Weller & Liam Green-Hughes

[What we know about learning]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelheiss/2871996129/

It’s complex

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ripizzo/2310929170/

It’s messy

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maistora/3014414972/

It varies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2201791390/

There are a lot of theories

Build tools to represent this

[What we I know about social media]

1. <embed> is the universal acid of the web – we should build around it

2. Simple with reach trumps complex with small audience

3. Sharing is a motivation to participation

4. Start simple and let others build on top

5. Providing limitations frames input

6. Complexity comes from the network not the app

Questions

• Is the tradeoff between complexity and shareability worthwhile?

• Is this a false dichotomy?• The Knowledge Management lesson• Can you generate complexity/variation

through bottom up?• Only good for simple stuff?