The social navigator: A personalized learning platform for social media education

Abstract

We present the Social Navigator, an open, Web-based learning platform supporting training of Social Media skills in vocational education. It provides access to a rich pool of resources that enable teachers to integrate Social Media education into the teaching process and offers information and training material to trainees. Designed in an interdisciplinary approach, the Social Navigator builds upon a Social Web skill model, which is used to provide personalized, guided access to resources. Complementary, the integration of Social Web channels stimulates social interaction and helps users to implicitly acquire Social Web skills. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.