Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
High Ed Web – Buffalo
Oct 7th, 2013
Guacamelee copyright Juice Box Games
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Andrew Smyk
Program Coordinator
twitter: @andrewsmyk
Interactive Multimedia
Sheridan College
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
New technologies
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetriggerhappypenguin/5141870424
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Comfy? Let’s begin
Content Knowledge
1.1
@**$#?!?
8
#icantbelievehejustusedaninvertedgutwrenchpowerbomb
beinchargeofyou.com
Professors With Personal Tweets
Get High Credibility Marks
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-with-personal-tweets-get-high-credibility-marks/30635
Time to test credibility hypothesis:
Content Knowledge
1.6
4.8
No Twitter
With Twitter
Why?
What do the slate tablet,
pencil, calculator, laptop and
cell phones all have
in common?
What do the slate tablet,
pencil, calculator, laptop and
cell phones all have
in common?
17
.5%
of students will sign up for general SMS
notifications about class
98%
98%
of students will sign up for SMS
notifications if it about cancelling class
34
Broadcasting and communicating needs
to be focused and strategic
•Folding Chalk Board
+
•Face Time
•Folding Chalk Board
+
•Face Time
Building relationships with technology
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Learning Management Systems
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Become a LMS Luchador
Black Box
your LMS is a
Clear Box
build a
experience
What about my mobile LMS app?
BYOD
But it’s a
world
50%of your students can’t participate
approximately
#ffly #rwd
• responsive Wordpress themes
• responsive boiler plates
• responsive frameworks
What to learners/students want?
Presentation/
Attractiveness
Content Access
Communicative
Enablement
Technical
Functionality
Learner Support
July – September 2004: International Journal on E-Learning Alex Koohang & Jacques De Plessis
It’s all about the
Content
and content access
Create opportunities for full (contact)
interaction with your course content
Multi-sensory experiences
enhance interaction and the
relationship with content
21%2012
second screen experience
36%2013
85%
70%78%tablet/phone
The higher the number of
devices you can reach, the
higher the engagement with
your course content.
access = engagement
(that’s pedagogy, baby!)
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Free-roaming learners
Anytime, Anywhere
Mobile has become the student’s first choice
for internet access - NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011
48%of 18 to 29-year-olds, a mobile phone is
the primary way of getting online
- Cell Internet Use 2012 – Pew Internet
57%of 18 to 29-year-olds, a mobile phone is
the primary way of getting online
- Cell Internet Use 2013 – Pew Internet
90 percent of young people sleep next
to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank
90 percent of young people sleep next
to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank
Pivot, Snack, Burst
students “snack” in bed and more often
during times of boredom
4 in 104 in 10
students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey
students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey
students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey
Content access
Quality of Content
1.2
4.8
Strictly
LMS
Mobile
Friendly
Built in Bias?
Forge ahead
Make mistakes
Stay calm
There is no road map
• encourage tweeting
• provide a hashtag
• post tweets relevant to content
• retweet relevant student tweets*
• acknowledge student work*
51% of its active user base
access FB using mobile
• posting class notices
• responding to student questions
• general topic conversations
• providing resources
Communications
.8
4.2
email
social
media
Conclusion
Access your course content for one week
on mobile to see what pain points exist in
your accessing your online content.
It’s OK to make mistakes,
this is not brain surgery
(Unless you are actually doing brain surgery)
Students will forgive mistakes, when
trying to implement something new.
(You will get lots of feedback how to make it better)
(Unless you’ve performed brain surgery on said students)
Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Questions? Comments?
twitter: @andrewsmyk
andrew@andrewsmyk.com
Resources & Credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/21976482@N04/3244983458/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - treasure - Piotr Lewand
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavercaroline/4425551695/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - phone in bed - Caroline Caver
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/photogirlaz/4524779331/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - sleeping - Photo Girl AZ
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5607484228/ - Lecture Hall – Hack NY
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/threehundredsixtyfive/3506146606/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - chalkboard - Unique Apple
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosipaw/4328473236/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - cellphones - Rosie Paw
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenccwu/3403571542/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - student surfing – Stehpen CC Wu
• http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/437300414_c9c2c0ef78_b.jpg - payphone keyboard
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrycady/5399344827/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Stanton Cady - speakers
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/3986524856/sizes/o/in/photostream/ - Cuba Gallery - old radio
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/leehaywood/7509715314/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Lee Haywood - military radio
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincetemplement/3333125657/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - zombie - Vince Templement
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherw/536546030/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - messy room - Christopher Woods
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/margolove/2309415588/ - Chalk Board –Margolove
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/7382255242/ Trail of Devices – Lyza Danger
• Cellphones in a Pile - Courtesy Geitan Lee, flickr.com
• Blackboard Mobile Learning - http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Mobile/Products/Mobile-Learn.aspx
• Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks
• Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
• Cell Internet Use
• NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011
• Educating for innovation
• Architecting Usability Properties in the E-Learning Instructional Design Process

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Editor's Notes

  • #4 Leveraging technologies or bringing new technologies into the classroom can often be uncomfortable
  • #9 Tools
  • #17 Luddites
  • #18 Technology is a disruption and is often difficult to deal with…much like trying to get rid of a bomb
  • #19 What is the biggest obstacle to tech in school? Students not allowed to use tech in school.
  • #20 The pile of cell phones tells one story, but the body language of the in the first row tells an even bigger story.
  • #21 Students will use devices, to access information, tweet, comment your lecture, get over it.
  • #22 Military mobile field phone
  • #23 Students will call you on your technology usage
  • #24 The introduction of the iPhone 2007 basically changed classroom technology.
  • #25 We often think of this as the zombie apocalypse.
  • #26 As educators, we often think of this as the zombie apocalypse.
  • #27 As educators, we often think of this as the zombie apocalypse.
  • #30 ½ of 1% of students will sign up for general SMS notifications about class
  • #31 SMS can be an important tool in communicating with students.
  • #32 SMS notifications can be a “Get Out of Jail Free” card for you later in the term.
  • #34 98% of students will sign up for SMS notifications if it about cancelling class
  • #35 Old technology plus new technology transforms the older technology into something new. 10 year old daughter works on her math homework in the treehouse with a blackboard, Apple FaceTime and email.
  • #37 Old technology plus new technology transforms the older technology into something new. 10 year old daughter works on her math homework in the treehouse with a blackboard, Apple FaceTime and email.
  • #38 Old technology plus new technology transforms the older technology into something new. 10 year old daughter works on her math homework in the treehouse with a blackboard, Apple FaceTime and email.
  • #43 LMS apps support iPhone, Android and Blackberry. But what are your students bring to class?
  • #44 Most likely a feature phone or other Os not supported by the app.
  • #45 BYOD
  • #47 Students become closed off to content become disengaged.
  • #48 An LMS effectively padlocks your course content
  • #49 Solution – go responsive
  • #51 Solution – go responsive
  • #73 Pioneering is difficult, filled with tangents, stumbles and getting lost.
  • #74 Pioneering is difficult, filled with tangents, stumbles and getting lost.
  • #75 Pioneering is difficult, filled with tangents, stumbles and getting lost.
  • #76 Pioneering is difficult, filled with tangents, stumbles and getting lost.
  • #77 Tools