This is a copy of the Implementing iPads as Personal Learning Devices: Making the Paperless MBA Possible Presentation that was delivered at the iPads in Higher Education Conference held in Cyprus during March, 2014.
Implementing iPads as Personal Learning Devices: Making the Paperless MBA Possible
1. Challenges
& Tips
Innovations
Implementing iPads as
Personal Learning Devices:
Making the Paperless MBA
Possible
Sharon Altena
Graduate School of Business
Queensland University of Technology
Overview What?
Why?How?
5. Our Students
32 – 50
years old
Mid Career
Professionals
Minimum
5 years
experience
Undergraduate
Degree
Digital Natives
and Immigrants
Study one
weekend/month
over 22 months
Australia,
Pacific Islands
and Asia
Predominantly
Male
6. What we are trying to achieve?
Transition from this … to this
7. How are we getting there?
Implementing BYOD
iPads as
Personal Learning
Devices
9. How are we getting there?
Action Research Project
Iteration
Cycle 1
Plan Implement
Observe
Reflect
Plan Implement
Observe
Reflect
Iteration
Cycle 2
10. Seeking Answers to three key questions
How could students use the device to assist them
with their studies?
Can an iPad replace a laptop in the classroom?
Is it possible to achieve a paperless learning
environment for post graduate learners?
14. Where did we start?
Student trial
2 iPad users
4 non-iPad users
15. Feedback on the trial
High pressure
environment. You are
adding another level of
complexity
Cost of Apps for
students
There will be
pressure on me to
use them
Go Hard!
Take away
all paper
