How Medical Students Use iPads to Enhance Learning
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The document discusses how iPads have been implemented and used by medical students at Manchester Medical School. It finds that iPads provide students with convenient access to resources, allow for electronic note-taking and paperless data collection, and enable instant information lookup. Students have used iPads for collaboration through sharing resources, situated learning through accessing information when needed, and reflective learning through recording experiences. Surveys found the iPads had a positive impact on student experience and learning, shifting it towards a more student-centered and constructivist approach. The medical school continues supporting iPad use through providing ownership, curating recommended apps and content, and facilitating situated and collaborative learning.
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How Medical Students Use iPads to Enhance Learning
- 1. A Day in the life of an iPad equipped Medical Student: or what our students taught us about iPads Tim Cappelli Omer Ali and Billy Melton Project Manager Medical Students Manchester Medical School
- 2. Why Mobile Devices? • Distributed student cohort ! • Direct Communication was difficult ! • Access to IT was opportunistic ! • Widely differing experiences and access to resources ! • Poor student feedback in NSS ! • The Promise of mobile learning
- 3. Why iPads? • Limited Choice • 16GB resident memory • 10 hours ba9ery life • Desirability – acceptance by students • Easy to install applica@ons • Applecare warranty and support • Mature App market • Infec@on Control
- 4. The Pilot • Dec 2011 iPad 2s issued to all yr 4 students (460) ! • Students were loaned the iPad un@l they graduated ! • All iPads pre-‐configured with MDM soOware ! • In 2012 this was rolled out to all clinical year students (1500)
- 5. How did the students use them?
- 7. Convenience • Access to email and timetables • Lack of printing and paperwork ! “During term time I use my iPad for the majority of my medical degree. It was actually great as it minimised what I needed to carry round during revision time and just day to day in the hospital.”
- 8. Smart Notes • Electronic note taking • No paper • Easier to collate and reference • Student Generated content
- 9. Instant Information • Instant access to Information - Medscape, BMJ BP, NICE • Situated, ‘De Novo’ Learning • Changes the role of the tutor • Changes the demands on the student - transactive memory
- 10. Better use of Time • Access to learning and resources in ‘dead’ time - Good Reader, BMJ Learning, Downcast • Opportunistic and contextualised learning “Breaks used to be wasted on doing nothing, but with the iPad I can now utilize the time by answering emails and organizing learning opportunities” !
- 11. Collaboration • PBL cases are a key part of the MMS Curriculum • Dropbox and Facebook used to share resources • Mind mapping used to share ideas • Online revision groups • Common Device enables inclusivity “The ease of access on iPads means that revision sessions publicised on Facebook etc are easy to access and sign up to, and any changes are instantaneously communicated.” 70% of students said there had been a positive change in the way that knowledge and experience are shared due the use of iPads? ! ! !
- 12. Paperless Data Collection • eForms app • Used for all Work Based Assessments • Used for over 700 admission interviews • Will be used for OSCEs next year • Evaluation, registration, attendance, etc
- 13. Reflective Learning • over 80% of students used their iPad for reflection • Mainly at home, but also during breaks or in the workplace • Use Evernote, recording and camera functions ! “The iPads are very useful for portfolio to record skills and reflections.”
- 14. Ownership is Important • Requests for purchase • They become integrated into the student’s routine • Students can personalise devices, store content, use beyond the classroom and feel free to experiment • Builds a sense of ‘community’
- 15. Impact How have the iPads changed student learning?
- 16. Impact on Learning • Difficult to measure • iPads are facilitating a shift in learning Instructivist/teacher-led student-centred/constructivist • Indicated by: Student generated content Collaboration and discussion Situated learning and reflection Cochrane et al, 2011. iPadagogy: Appropriating the iPad within pedagogical contents
- 17. Impact on Student Experience • iPads have had a positive impact on the student experience NSS Scores Manchester Medical School 2013 Overall Satisfaction Teaching Assessment and Feedback 0 22.5 45 67.5 90
- 18. Where are we now? How are we supporting this shift Ownership Students gifted iPads ! Convenience Ebooks from Elsevier BMJ Best Practice Recommended Apps for note taking and ‘how to videos’ ! Situated Learning BMJ Learning Downloadable videos iBooks ! Collaboration and Self Generated Learning Flipped Classrooms iPad Gurus ! Reflective Leraning New e-Portfolio