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Title: The USQ Tablet PC Project


1
The USQ Tablet PC Project
  • Birgit Loch
  • Department of Mathematics Computing
  • and Division of ICT
  • University of Southern Queensland
  • Birgit.Loch_at_usq.edu.au
  • http//www.sci.usq.edu.au/staff/lochb

2
Overview
  • USQ context
  • Journey from one to many tablet PCs
  • What we do with tablet PCs
  • New Camtasia software for lecture recording
  • Alternatives to tablet PCs
  • Examples
  • What about the students?
  • Preliminary outcomes

3
USQ context
  • Regional university, located in Toowoomba 130km
    west of Brisbane. 2 smaller campuses
  • 27,000 students ¾ study in distance mode
  • High percentage of low SES, mature age and part
    time students
  • High emphasis on ICTs and online delivery

4
Journey from one to many tablet PCs
  • 2005 1 (maths)
  • LT Grant 2006 7 (maths, stats, LT support3
    for semester loan)
  • LT Fellowship S1 2009 additional 50 (all 5
    Faculties, Library, LT support)
  • Extension of LT Fellowship into 2010student
    tablet PCs

5
USQ Senior LT Fellowship in 2009
  • 50,000 100 teaching relief for 1 semester for
    fellow Tablet PCs software
  • plus 120,000 All Deans, CTO, VC, Toshiba (in
    kind)
  • Establishment of ICT policies and preferred model
  • Recruitment targeted individuals and volunteers
  • Training and ongoing support
  • Community of Practice of Tablet PC users
  • Research into impact of Tablet PCs on teaching
    learning
  • Strategic direction Tablet PC University

6
Evaluation
  • Feedback
  • Via email from face to face informal meetings
    via the community site, eg forum posts regular
    reflections
  • Four staff surveys
  • Interviews
  • Student evaluations, student access of material,
    recordings

7
Some Challenges
  • ICT support, technical issues
  • Uptake of new technology in time poor environment
  • One person driving the trial what if
  • They leave the university
  • Drown under workload at end of teaching free
    semester
  • Decide to focus on different projects
  • sustainable approach distributive leadership,
    champions, super users (LTPF project)

8
What we do with tablet PCs
  • Writing in lectures
  • To replace need for whiteboard. Keeps record.
    Distance students can see what was written in
    class.
  • Recording lectures
  • To provide a near on campus experience to
    distance students. Caters for more learning
    styles. To help students catch up on missed
    class. Repeat play back benefits international
    students. Mobile learning.

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9
What we do with tablet PCs
  • Marking assignments
  • Electronic submission encouraged at USQ. Faster
    feedback if marked and returned electronically.
  • Recording snippets
  • Concepts identified as difficult are explained in
    short recordings. Added to study material.
    Responses to forum questions, emails.

10
What we do with tablet PCs
  • Recording individual student consultations in
    mathematics/statistics support
  • Allows students to play back later. Reinforces
    understanding.
  • Going wireless!
  • Handing the tablet PC to students. Encourages
    shy students or those without English as first
    language to contribute.

11
What we do with tablet PCs
  • Running synchronous tutorials
  • Web conferencing Elluminate Live, MSN Messenger

12
New Camtasia software for lecture recording
  • Beta trial in 2008
  • Faculty trial in S1 2009
  • Roll out across USQ in S2 2009
  • For ALL computers that can connect to the USQ
    server

13
Alternatives to tablet PCs
  • Pen-enabled screens (LTPF Project)
  • Reducesneed fortablet PCsin class

14
Alternatives to tablet PCs
  • Digital note pens

15
Alternatives to tablet PCs
  • Ebook readers
  • Faculty of Business trial

16
Thermodynamics Andrew Wandell
  • To be presented at AaeE conference in Adelaide

17
Biodiversity Conservation Andy Le Brocque
18
Programming Michael de Raadt
19
Finance Peter Phillips
20
Statistics, Christine McDonald

21
The Library Kaye England/ Ranald Simpson
22
Mathematics Trevor Langlands/ Birgit Loch
23
Mathematics Birgit Loch
24
Nursing maths Linda Galligan
25
Nursing maths Birgit Loch
26
What about the students?
  • S1 2010 (VCs strategic funds, Fellowship)
  • Multi-Touch net books

27
Preliminary outcomes Tablet PCs in S1 2009,
general survey
Faculty/Division responses Successful users courses Tablet PCs
Education 3 2 2 3
Business 6 5 7 5 ( 2)
Arts 2 1 4 2 1
Sciences 11 10 12 2 5 ( 8)
Engineering Surveying 6 4 7 4 2 (2)
Library 4 3 3 1
total 32 25 35 17 8 (12)
  • 18 new fellowship tablet PCs (1 spare)
  • 8 new additional purchases
  • 12 existing tablet PCs
  • Approx 5,500 students taught with tablet PC in S1

Bold fellowship x additional new ( x)
existing
28
The difference in perception of the need for a
Tablet PC in various disciplines
  • Additional purchases in/after S1
  • EngineeringSurveying, Sciences, Business
  • No additional purchases
  • Education, Arts
  • Same training and support for all users
  • Reasons Sharing practice? Level of computer
    confidence? Quantitative nature of discipline?
    Facultys political situation?

29
Has your teaching approach (pedagogy) changed
  • More collaborative
  • Students are now more involved in contributing
  • Freed from dot-point slides
  • Yes. I appreciate how much students prefer having
    you write
  • It has helped achieve my goal to close the 'soft'
    information gap between on and off campus
    students
  • Have based our class plans around the
    socio-cultural method of peer-learning
  • I have become more visual in the way that I teach
  • Not yet. No time to incorporate significant
    changes

30
What was your students attitude to your use of
the tablet technology?
  • VERY POSITIVE, excited, impressed by the use of
    this newer technology
  • They loved it
  • Mostly positive but again marred by the fact that
    I had a lot of technical difficulties
  • I asked and a couple responded to say they
    thought the handwritten comments were helpful but
    I suspect they would have found typewritten
    comments just as helpful.

31
Have you obtained unexpected results
  • I thought the Tablet PC would be useful for
    working through quantitative work. I did not
    expect the more dynamic environment that it can
    help to generate and I did not expect it would be
    so useful for even the qualitative parts of the
    course.
  • Yes, whilst we thought the Tablet PC would
    increase student learning we were surprised by
    how much the Tablet PC increased our own
    engagement with technology.
  • In terms of how the use has invigorated my
    teaching. For the first time in years I have
    felt excited about my teaching and that is
    reflected in how I interact with students. So
    then they get excited
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