Some notes from the presentation by Olaojo Aijegbayo, on Staff Use of iPads, the BERA-funded project which supplied Univ Huddersfield's Business School staff with iPads and evaluated their use in admin, research, and teaching-related tasks:
A link to the project and a preliminary look at a survey of staff using their ipads, with Wordle summary of the apps they use for each of the three kinds of tasks (admin, research, teaching): http://bjetipadproject.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/ipad-survey-results-infographics/
And a link to the recording I made of the session itself, by Adobe Connect. The sound is not great but it's alright. I'm still learning with Adobe Connect!
https://connect.le.ac.uk/p9kwe4kak1d/
One important issue that came out in discussion is the need for some form of support for staff, to enable them to maximise the affordances of a tablet in learning and research. For example, one staff member used Educreations app to mark up and sketch out an explanation of a difficult concept, incorporating images and photos, and saving the whole thing as a short video which is distributed over their VLE, and this gave other staff some ideas to try. At Huddersfield, they are beginning some iPad Coffee Club meetings which try to provide this support.
So on that note, if you have a handheld-learning related issue you would like to explore or question to address, please let me know and we'll figure out a way to address it in an upcoming meeting!
Terese Bird, Learning Technologist, Institute of Learning Innovation, University of Leicester
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