30,000 IPADS: A LICENCE TO THRILL

Dennis Macnamara & Lynnae Rankine

University of Western Sydney

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A licence to thrill

30,000 iPADS

Lynnis Blended Learning Manager, @_Lynnae 15 years as an educational technologist in higher education l.rankine@uws.edu.au

Blended Learning Consultant, @_uldm Strategist, business change manager, convenor of IDEA events d.macnamara@uws.edu.au

SETTING THE SCENE: UWS IN LATE 2012

SETTING THE SCENE: UWS IN LATE 2012

• Blended learning just commencing • Mostly F2F institution • PC based • Centrally controlled applications • Financial shortages and

redundancies in some faculties

WHY DID WE DO BLENDED LEARNING?

WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING?

Fully F2F (no online components)

Completely online (no F2F components)

Blended

Technology enhanced

(no reduction in F2F contact)

Mostly online (Online replaces

some F2F contact)

Adapted from: Graham, C., Woodfield, W., Harrison, J. (2013) A framework for institutional adoption and implementation of blended learning in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education. Vol 18, pp4-14.

A LICENCE TO THRILL

THE ANNOUNCEMENT …

… AND THE AFTERMATH

THE CHALLENGE FOR IT

What about apps?

THE CHALLENGE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

WE NEEDED TO COVER THE BASICS

NOT EVERYONE GOT AN IPAD

Some of the things we did

DID WE MENTION WE BOUGHT A LOT OF IPADS?

Found friends

and allies

Basic training

with Apple

Suggested apps on website

2-day Summit

School-based

workshops

Guest speakers

More iPals days

More training

Stayed positive!

HIGHLIGHTED EXEMPLARS

The essence of blended learning is…

…ENGAGING ON CAMPUS EXPERIENCES

…SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE

…INTEGRATED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Hubs – and – spokes

Role Central Faculty/School Based

Academic Development 3 ’on loan’ to Schools

Pedagogical Support 3 21

Content / resource Development 3 19

IT ADAPTED

What were the early outcomes?

45,000 iPads in total

Overall

Some

+ reaction from staff

+ reaction from

students

iPads integral to

UWS

Business as usual

Key success factors

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS

Great people

Strong executive leadership

Being very flexible

Staying on message

Strong learning design focus

WHAT CHALLENGES REMAIN?

Enterprise Vs individual app acquisition

Framework for mobile app development

Mobile is BAU Online is BAU

iPads are a useful tool – not a fix all

BYO in 2016

Final comments

and

questions

THANK YOU

Lynnis Blended Learning Manager, @_Lynnae 15 years as an educational technologist in higher education l.rankine@uws.edu.au

Blended Learning Consultant, @_uldm Strategist, business change manager, convenor of IDEA events d.macnamara@uws.edu.au