This book has been designed as a tool to help you learn how to build your own 23Things-style online learning resource. It provides a step-by-step guide to installing and configuring the software you’ll need and some advice and guidance on creating effective content for your resource and designing and awarding Open Badges to give your learners recognition for what they have learned.
One of the key benefits of smartphones and tablets as a platform for delivering learning is that their portable nature tends to mean they are with us wherever we are. For learning, this means that we can, and should, create learning resources which encourage or enable learners to apply what they have just learned to their practice as soon as possible. As you’ll see, this application of learning as soon as we’ve done it is very powerful in helping us to retain our learning and develop our practice skills. This ebook has been developed to help you create learning resources which make best use of the capabilities of today’s smartphones and tablet devices.