Statewide IT Conference September 29, 2011

iPads for Teaching and Learning

Faculty Learning Communities

Outcomes and Highlights

IT Staff Support

Classroom Sets

Pedagogy + Technology

iPads for Teaching and Learning

Why a faculty learning community?

FLCs promote the goals of teaching and learning centers by:

•building a community of people interested in issues of teaching and learning

•enabling cross-disciplinary conversations and collaborations about teaching

•supporting and encouraging good teaching

Why a faculty learning community?

•providing an opportunity to give and receive feedback about teaching in a safe, supportive environment

•facilitating the dissemination of best practices beyond the FLC to the wider university community

Why an iPad FLC?

The iPad FLC promoted the use of innovative teaching practices by the faculty participants by:

•creating the expectation that the participants were going to try something new in their classes

•enabling the participants to share their knowledge and ideas and define common goals

•establishing a safe, supportive environment in which even “failures” were seen as informative

Faculty Learning Communities

Outcomes and Highlights

IT Staff Support

Classroom Sets

Pedagogy + Technology

iPads for Teaching and Learning

Challenges

Being first is hard!

• No research out there

• Unexpected wireless problems

• Where do you start?

Fighting the design?

• iPad was designed as a personal device

• iPad was designed more as a consumption device

Successes – Visual learning

Geologic mapping

The iPads helped students’ “learning associated with visual integration of spatial sets of data”.

Dr. Simon Brassell

Geological Sciences

Successes – Visual learning

Biomechanics

iPad served as a mini-lab to allow students to analyze and understand human movement

Jake Streepey

Physical Education

Successes – Visual learning

Making thinking visible

• Large lecture class• Students worked in

small groups to sketch the process

• “Voted” with clickers

Joe Pomerening

Biology

Successes - Collaboration

Mind mapping apps

iPads promoted collaborative learning and knowledge creation in Communication Theory course

Jonathan RossingCommunication

Putting it together

Putting it together

Putting it together

It’s (still) all about the apps…

• “Productivity” apps seem to be best suited for higher education

• We need app developers to sit down with faculty members

• Finding apps is still really difficult

• What’s the next big thing after wireless?

Faculty Learning Communities

Outcomes and Highlights

IT Staff Support

Classroom Sets

Pedagogy + Technology

iPads for Teaching and Learning

IT Staff Support

• Desktop Replacement vs. Extension• Early Adoption

Faculty Expectations

• Faculty teaching methodologyConveyance of information

• Student retention/attentionCollaborative LearningIncreased understandingIncreased resources

• Fast pace changing landscape of technologyInstant accessUp-to-date processes

Challenges and Solutions

• On campus / Off campus connectivityVPNWiFi

• Apples AppStoreTM (IUWare for iPads)Compatible Applications

• 3rd Party SolutionsHardware interfacesDesktop solutions

Faculty Learning Communities

Outcomes and Highlights

IT Staff Support

Classroom Sets

Pedagogy + Technology

iPads for Teaching and Learning

All you need is here:

• iOS Education Deployment Guide

Purchasing Apps

Sync Strategies

Tips for classroom set

• Use a Mac to sync iPads• Pay attention to wi-fi network• Practice activity before class• Check back often

• It’s all about the apps

Faculty Learning Communities

Outcomes and Highlights

IT Staff Support

Classroom Sets

Pedagogy + Technology

iPads for Teaching and Learning

Supporting AND Partnering

Supports Partnering

Empowering People

Action 64 

…provide resources and support for experimentation with and implementation of a range of creative and innovative approaches to teaching and learning….

Action 69

….evaluate, implement, and support appropriate compact, portable devices that connect students and instructors in ways that enable lean or rich communication, collaboration, and interaction using voice, audio, text, and video.

Action 25

…..support and pursue research into information technology itself. IT professionals and faculty should seek partnership opportunities for scholarly publication and invention disclosure that document meritorious research and discovery…..

Faculty Learning Communities

• New

Second Life

Large Classroom (clickers)• Potential

Smart phones

Social media

Virtual environments/Gaming• Others?

Questions?

iPads for Teaching and Learning

Questions?

Thank you.

iPads for Teaching and Learning