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.

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?

6. The ‘Big Wins’

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

19. Tim.Cappelli@manchester.ac.uk
Thank You