The document discusses various ways that technology is being used in educational settings, including MOOCs, BYOD policies, mobile learning apps, augmented reality, developing job skills, Google Apps for Education, and using SlideShare for sharing presentations. Key topics covered are using trigger images and videos with augmented reality to promote mental health awareness among students, universities offering MOOCs and virtual patients to help prepare students for future careers, and the benefits of Google Apps for collaborative learning.

2. The threat of MOOCs
• MOOCs can be a good
introduction/advert for
the institution.
• Amara’s law:
"We tend to overestimate
the effect of a technology
in the short run and
underestimate the effect
in the long run."

3. BYOD vs Network Security
• Organisations should be
“BYOD by default”.
• Relaxed log-in rules.
• Many colleges have
their own App.

4. Mobile learning in practice
• Learning materials
distributed before
lectures to prime and
stimulate learners in
advance.
• Use elements of gaming
and comic books.
• Substantial use of apps,
eg. Socrative & many
other created by colleges.

6. Using Augmented Reality to promote
mental health awareness
• 16-19 students were very
reluctant to read traditional
wall posters
• Placed trigger images around
college, which were designed
to appeal to teenagers.
• When scanned the aura would
play a short video clip,
professionally produced by a
mental health charity

7. How Learning Technology can prepare
learners for the world of work
• College leavers often lack
the softer skills (aka
“enterprise skills”) necessary
to make them ‘employable’.
• Examples:
– University of London MOOC
– ‘virtual patients’ for medical
students
– ‘video voices’ of employers
– sharing of e-portfolios with
employers

8. Google Apps for Education
• Used by millions of
students and
organisations worldwide
• Focussed on collaborative
learning
• Basic suite includes:
Gmail, Calendar, Groups,
Docs
• NEW content (all free):
Classroom, Drive, Vault,
Hangouts

9. • And finally … all presentations were made
available via “slideshare”
• Could we use this for TMC events ?