in July 2010. – School not printing meeting papers – Used the iPads for meetings and storing/annotating documents – School not printing lecture notes – iPads for students?
Mobile Computing since 2005 – Developing Mobile apps since 1996 – Teaching Mobile Computing Principles and Mobile Web since 2005 – Teaching iPhone and iPad development since 2007 – Developed Mobile Web and Native iPad applications
further with the iPad release. – Marketing used the name ‘iWestminster’ for CampusM. – We are distinguishing our project with “The Westminster Learning Surface”.
remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius. – “People remember 20% of what they see, 40% of what they see and hear, but about 75% of what they see and hear and do simultaneously” (Lindstrom, 1994)
themselves” (Holzinger 2002) – “Students consider interactivity extremely important” (Holzinger & Ebner 2003) – “Memorable educational experience should be enriching and enjoyable” (Shneiderman 1998) – Learning is an active process – Student motivation is an important factor – “Carefully designed interactive units can help the learning process” (Ebner & Holzinger 2007) Learning §
enhance the learning experience for the student” “I really enjoyed them, they were fun and helped with my understanding” ”Overall it was great and different from other modules a new technique of teaching students and a way of learning independently without feeling shy to ask anyone, and being able to do the puzzle and enjoy and learn at the same time in their own time.”
stop emails: ”Just emailing regarding the calculation of the final year grades. How are they done?” – MiModule: “ ? ” but hopefully will meet expectations of new generation of students
relationship with other UK/ London Universities – Better relationship between us and ISLS – Informing University on strategy of data modeling for mobile app consumption
– Course Information – Module Information – Develop iPhone versions – Make apps available to all UoW students – Measure impact on student engagement, performance, progression and retention
students with means to: – Study – Engage with module activities – Have a closer relationship with their course and modules (and be better informed) – Capture their interest and motivation – Full study will be carried out in 2011/2012 – Also interested in finding funding to develop MiModule into a framework that will allow practitioners to develop easily their own learning units