Successful stories of how teachers use learning technologies

Dear Team, You may be interested in my non MOOC blog: EFL through iPads. I teach in a totally paperless environment, using iPads. These are not BYODs, the college issues them to every student on entry and all books etc are online. We create our own books using iBook author, all material in dissmeninated and all work submitted on line. The learning design of the course is still one that we are exploring as we are in the first 6 months of the project and we are trying to see how the connectivity that mlearning affords can shape the way we design teaching and learning interaction. We are trying to avoid using the iPad as an expensive course book by only using it with PDFs etc. I am happy to Skype or have any other form of interaction with this team if I can add value to your group. An interesting snippet of information: we gave reading exams to 2 groups- half on iPads and half on paper. We repeated the process switching the device used to complete the assessment. For my classes 40% did better on iPads, 40% did better on paper, and 20% got the same score on both. Interestingly enough, with the exception of one student, the more successful students were in the 20% group. Only one student got 84% on paper but only 45% on his iPad. My direct email is dozdeniz@hct.ac.ae and I work for the Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi. Best of luck with your quest, Denise

Dear Denise,

Thank you for sharing your blog.  The project sounds very interesting.  I am certainly interested in finding out more about it and would be happy to add it to my list. 

in case you are intested , here are a few more links (found on the internet ) on how to use iPad in education : 

• Naace - The iPad as a Tool For Education - a case study http://www.naace.co.uk/publications/longfieldipadresearch
• Educause: Tablets and iPads - http://www.educause.edu/library/tablets-and-ipads
• School case studies on the use of iPads in education: http://www.ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au/ipad-education-case-studies