Tablets in Learning and Teaching: project at Huddersfield

We’re not the only institution running a project looking at the use of tablets by academics. A colleague forwarded to me details of the BERA-funded BJET iPad project at the University of Huddersfield, run by Olaojo Aiyegbayo from the University’s Teaching and Learning Institute.

This is interesting for a number of reasons, not least because (as with our project) Olaojo is focusing on the use of tablets in learning and teaching by academics rather than by students. He is also looking at categorising users and uses, in part through the application of the SAMR model by Rueben Puentedura. This has four layers: (1) Substitution (2) Augmentation (3) Modification and (4) Redefinition, with the first two classed as ‘Enhancement’ and the latter two classed as ‘Transformation’. Find out more about this.

I can see how this sort of model is very useful as a a way of showing the progression from, say, using your iPad to control a Powerpoint presentation running on the podium PC – to introducing new forms of groupwork that are only possible via a combination of tablets, collaborative apps and mirroring services.

I’d hope to share ideas and experiences with Oloajo in due course.