This was just a prcatice of a presentation I hope to give at the 2013 Mobile and Contextual Learning Conference in Doha in October!

1. Taking eBook
Readers to Prisons
A Tale of Two Projects
Helen Farley
Angela Murphy
Tas Bedford
Susan Hopkins

2. Rationale for doing this
 For mLearn 2013
 Mobile learning in a very specialised context
 Or is it?
 Regional
 Rural
 Remote
 Indigenous communities
 Developing nations

3. Overview of paper
 Context within Australian Higher Education
 The digital divide
 The Tertiary Preparation Program
 PLEIADES and what we learned
 From Access to Success
 Triple E Project
 Preliminary findings
 When eReaders go bad
 Where to from here

4. Incarcerated students
 Low socio-economic status background
 Females do not see the value in education
 Younger prisoners (under 25 years old) are
less inclined to study
 Older prisoners (over 25 years old) are more
inclined to study
 Considerable peer pressure not to study
 Prisoners from non-English speaking
backgrounds struggle
 Generally low literacy or numeracy skills
among the prison population.

5. The Digital Divide
 Increasing use of technology by HE institutions
means that certain cohorts are marginalised

6. PLEIADES
Lessons learned

7. From Access to Success
 Partnering with Open Access College (USQ),
ICT Services (USQ), Serco Asia Pacific,
Queensland Corrective Services

8. Triple ‘E’ Project
Education Engagement eReaders
 Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre
 Southern Queensland Correctional Centre
 Wolston Correctional Centre
 Woodford Correctional Centre
 Maryborough Correctional Centre

9. Evaluation
 Design-based Research
 Pre-focus groups
 Post-focus groups
 Questionnaires
 Observation (reports from tutors)
 Results
…. But results conflated

10. Issues and challenges
Technical

11. Issues and challenges
At the correctional centre

12. Issues and challenges
Student concerns

13. Issues and challenges
Digital literacy

14. Issues and challenges
Copyright

15. Where to from here …

16. Worth knowing …
 You get a sore throat when you don’t breathe
enough
 1 slide per minute MAX!!!
 Can only speak 1000 words/10 minutes
 This paper would take me nearly an hour to
read aloud – I have 20 minutes

17. My presentation style

18. Be contactable …
Dr Helen Farley
Email: helen.farley@usq.edu.au
Dr Angela Murphy
Email: angela.murphy@usq.edu.au
Dr Tasman Bedford
Email: tas.bedford@usq.edu.au
Dr Susan Hopkins
Email: susan.hopkins@usq.edu.au