The document summarizes the University of Northampton's approach to supporting mobile access to its virtual learning environment (VLE) and other systems. It discusses drivers for going mobile, challenges around inclusion and accessibility, and choosing a supplier that can meet current and future needs across different audiences and platforms. The university launched a mobile app in 2011 and has seen over 22,000 logins to date. Feedback from users has been positive, citing benefits like access to schedules and course materials anytime from their phones.
iExtension: How specialist, staff, and agents are utilizing the iPad acenetc ...Emily L Tipton
Title: iExtension: How Specialists and Agents are Utilizing the iPad
Abstract: We rely on technology daily to help us fulfill responsibility and accomplish our professional goals; however, technology is ever changing, always offering new gadgets and gizmos. As part of the land grant mission, Extension has traditionally embraced new advances in agricultural, but is sometimes tentative to try new computer technology in the job place. Apple’s release of the iPad not only combines the newest software application technology, but packages it in a revolutionary touch-based user interface surely to change how we compute. The iPad offers a cost-effective option for staying in-touch and conducting basic tasks, in addition, to providing a stylish new way to expand your use of technology. Join us as we share what the iPad offers and how UT Extension county and state professionals are utilizing this new, emerging technology to benefit us and our programs.
Lead Presenter: Emily Tipton, University of Tennessee, Animal Science
Additional Presenters: David Yates, UT Extension, University of Tennessee
Descriptors: Extension and Outreach, Information Technology - Teaching and Learning, Working Differently, iPad
Date: Sunday, June 12
Room: Conference B, Camtasia Room
Time: 9:45 am
Session Length: 45-minute
Dit is de Engelstalige versie van een presentatie over de effectiviteit van blended en online leren. Gehouden tijdens een studiemiddag van de Faculteit Business, Finance & Marketing van De Haagse Hogeschool.
iExtension: How specialist, staff, and agents are utilizing the iPad acenetc ...Emily L Tipton
Title: iExtension: How Specialists and Agents are Utilizing the iPad
Abstract: We rely on technology daily to help us fulfill responsibility and accomplish our professional goals; however, technology is ever changing, always offering new gadgets and gizmos. As part of the land grant mission, Extension has traditionally embraced new advances in agricultural, but is sometimes tentative to try new computer technology in the job place. Apple’s release of the iPad not only combines the newest software application technology, but packages it in a revolutionary touch-based user interface surely to change how we compute. The iPad offers a cost-effective option for staying in-touch and conducting basic tasks, in addition, to providing a stylish new way to expand your use of technology. Join us as we share what the iPad offers and how UT Extension county and state professionals are utilizing this new, emerging technology to benefit us and our programs.
Lead Presenter: Emily Tipton, University of Tennessee, Animal Science
Additional Presenters: David Yates, UT Extension, University of Tennessee
Descriptors: Extension and Outreach, Information Technology - Teaching and Learning, Working Differently, iPad
Date: Sunday, June 12
Room: Conference B, Camtasia Room
Time: 9:45 am
Session Length: 45-minute
Dit is de Engelstalige versie van een presentatie over de effectiviteit van blended en online leren. Gehouden tijdens een studiemiddag van de Faculteit Business, Finance & Marketing van De Haagse Hogeschool.
Webinar - Instagram for Public Libraries: Good Practices for Social Media - 2...TechSoup
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Webinar - Instagram for Public Libraries: Good Practices for Social Media - 2...TechSoup
Visit http://www.techsoup.org for donated technology for nonprofits and libraries!
Instagram is a highly popular social network, and one that is increasingly being used by libraries to engage with patrons and supporters. Instagram's user-friendly interface makes it easy to broadcast pictures and short videos to a wide audience. But just like any social media tool, it is important to know what works (and what doesn't) when it comes to using Instagram to share library information.
Come to this free webinar to learn from two libraries who have been successfully using Instagram to engage with their communities, and to share positive library messages with the larger community of Instagram users across the world. From promoting library materials to showcasing library services, these libraries will share good practices that they have learned along the way.
-- Burlingame Public Library (CA) uses their Instagram account to share its unique story visually through a combination of captivating photos and videos.
-- Cherry Hill Public Library (NJ) uses their Instagram account to promote library materials and services, celebrate libraries in general, and to convey a love of reading and books.
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More details: http://mm2.tid.es/mhcitutorial/
Karen Church
Research Scientist
Telefonica Research
www.karenchurch.com
@karenchurch
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2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Cyber risk predictions
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Welocme to ViralQR, your best QR code generator.ViralQR
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Free Complete Python - A step towards Data Science
Going mobile
1. Going Mobile – The University of
Northampton approach to supporting
mobile access to the VLE and other key
systems
Rob Howe
The University of Northampton
Nov 2012
3. Challenges or opportunities?
Why not?
1.Inclusion (device and
connectivity)
2.Accessibility (choice,
personalisation, control)
3.Usability and training
See the Learntech blog for more on this
4. What are the needs?
Different audiences (students, staff, prospects)
What’s possible?
5. Choosing a supplier
• In-house or external?
Major updates to Apple and Android Mobile OS, Jan 2010 – Mar 2012
Add in Blackberry and Mobile Web versions to this…
6. Choosing a supplier
• ‘Most of the people, most of the time’... Audiences,
platforms and the pace of change
• Creating learning opportunities
• Works ‘out of the box’
and customisable
• Cost
7. Creating a one-stop shop
CIS (Timetabling) Marketing
Course info Mobile web page Jpg files Flickr Youtube
Web Library
Staff directory
team Systems
Talis integration
Events listings
LearnTech
News feeds Blackboard Learn
8. Creating mobile learning opportunities
• Putting Mobile Learn through its paces
– Lots of in-house testing
– Blackboard support resources
– Getting help from external experts
9. Creating mobile learning opportunities
• Introducing Mobile Learn to staff
– course design considerations
– support resources
– inspiration / case studies:
http://bit.ly/uonmobileart
10. Launch & promotion
Welcome weekend (21st and 22nd September 2011)
• Print marketing
– Posters
– Door hangers
– Stands
• Web promotion
– University website
– Blackboard
– Facebook
– Twitter
11. Is it working? Measuring adoption
Analytics:
1000 downloads of iNorthampton 3178 unique users of Mobile
one week after launch Learn (≈32.5% of downloads)
Around 14,000 downloads to date Over 22,700 logins to date
12. Is it working? Feedback from users
Being able to post
Being able to post
via a mobile means
via a mobile means • Twitter Bloody good idea!
Bloody good idea!
work in progress can
work in progress can (#iNorthampton)
be recorded in situ
be recorded in situ • Email
and shared
and shared • Blog
spontaneously.
spontaneously. @UniNorthants now
@UniNorthants now
• Spot surveys have their own app.
have their own app.
• Focus groups Snazzy.
Snazzy.
• Pilots
Can access NILE when ever
Can access NILE when ever
II need to and if II need to
need to and if need to Am not tryna gas but
Am not tryna gas but
check something quickly II
check something quickly thank God for the
thank God for the
can do. Also comes in handy
can do. Also comes in handy Northampton app
Northampton app
if can’t see properly in
if can’t see properly in because now II left my
because now left my
lectures as can bring them
lectures as can bring them timetable at home, II
timetable at home,
up on my phone.
up on my phone. would have been lost.
would have been lost.
13. Recent Student Update (Oct 2012)
• Based on 295 responses from new students during
induction October 2012.
• 82% own a smartphone (4% are planning to get one this
year).
• 35% had used the app within the first 3 weeks of starting.
(31% of these students indicated that it influenced their
choice of University !) – more (and earlier) promotion
needed ?
• Timetables, Maps and access to the VLE were the most
popular elements at this stage.
14. Top five tips
1. Identify needs (and decide which ones you can meet)
2. Bring together a project team with range of experience
3. Find a provider who can satisfy the immediate need and
provide extensions for the future (SDKs)
4. The app stores are your friends (?)
5. Stay in the loop
16. References etc.
Useful links
•More about the iNorthampton project:
http://www.northampton.ac.uk/mobile
•Guidelines on accessibility for the mobile web:
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
•TechDis on mobile learning:
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/investinyourself/freeresources/accessiblemobilelear
ning
•Traxler, J. (2010) “Students and mobile devices.” ALT-J Research in Learning
Technology [online] 18.2, p149-160. Available from:
http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/10759
[Accessed 10th February 2012]
•More info on JADU MyAPI (presentation by Steve Martin):
http://speakerdeck.com/u/s2martin/p/inorthampton-and-jadu
Image credits
•Photography by Rob Farmer, University of Northampton
•3d characters from http://www.canstockphoto.com/3pod
With thanks to Julie Usher (Solutions Engineer, Bb Mobile) for original work on this
presentation
Editor's Notes
Welcome and introductions
- Strategic drivers – refocus pedagogy (ref Sharples & the MALT project) . Also personalisation, flexibility, infrastructure foundation (unified approach) recruitment, transition & retention (Marketing), demand (survey – see next slide) From the Learning Technology Operational Plan 2011: 1D: Investigate new and emerging technologies which may offer pedagogic value 2B: To develop NILE as an academic portal 2C: The MALT project is considering to increasing use of mobile devices by staff and students and the impact this will have on learning and teaching. M&ER are considering the use of mobiles by prospective students. From: Information Services Learning and Teaching Strategy 2010-15 3.6 We will explore, develop and promote new technology for learning and teaching. Over the period 2010-15 this will include an emphasis on mobile technology..... From: University of Northampton Learning and Teaching Strategy 2010-15 O2.1 To provide effective physical spaces and online environments to enhance student learning AA2.4 To establish a project on mobile learning
- BYOD model, but also loan devices, campus wireless and portable wifi hotspots -Traxler’s paper on student devices - Accesibility – alternatives/adjustments Google search for ‘university provide ipads’
Logical progression - the needs determined the team (data sources), then needed a delivery platform (the supplier)
Targeting information to audiences throughout their life at the University – they shouldn’t have to download another app. Covering as many platforms as possible and ensuring currency despite rate of change Constructivism: Learning is not just one way, but also one app will never meet all learning needs Customised data to audience – staff and student split on news – thinking about prospectus / enquiries. Signed 13 th Apr 2011
User group – 22 definites, plus 13 investigating. International mailing list What’s great about it? Push notifications Checking/adding announcements Checking content (slides, docs, pdf, audio and video) Discussion boards Blogs and journals Tasks Mobile tests What still needs work? Contacts / Roster and email tools Calendar tool Text formatting (especially iOS) Platform parity What would we like to see in the future? Integration with plug-ins More assessment and grading options
13 th April 2011 (purchase)......7 th September 2011 (publish to IOS / Android market), with publicity at Welcome Weekend (24/25 Sept) Multiple accounts, Apple approval processes, and app size
Difference between analytics between mobile central and Stats through building block (information of use to those who have only purchased Learn and not central). Downloads: 9248? iOS, 2177 Android, 2246 Blackberry = 13,671 total (Oct 2012)
- informal feedback - focus groups (incl URB@N) - mobile learning pilots 85% of students rate Mobile Learn as ‘useful’ / ‘very useful’ Library, Directory and Timetables score over 70%
Needs – not just data but platforms (Blackberry) Team – project manager, data experts, buy in and branding/consistency (Computing, NBS). Note time difference. App Stores - get your accounts ready, and beware of Apple process delays and confidentiality. Skills gap. Feedback loops – iterative process – transparency