Manchester Metropolitan University

14 April 2014#MELSIGMMU@melsiguk

Smart Devices for Learning #3

Andrew MiddletonSheffield Hallam UniversityChair of MELSIG http://melsig.shu.ac.uk/

Welcome to the 20th event

Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group

• Digital and social media

• Together

• Sharing practice

• Generating ideas

• Asking questions

• Ideas and risky thinking

• Innovation and change

Smart Devices for Learning

•Connectivity – always on

•Personal - not institutional

•Authentic and ubiquitous – ever-present like 'intelligent clothing'

•Changing the learning context and the learning environment

•How?

•Today: diverse experience and interests

•Online resource and book

(cc) ) by sa Saad Faruque

Digital Voices

•Representing the MELSIG ethos

•How the recorded voices of teachers, students, employers, professionals and many others can change and enhance learning

•Essays, case studies and 50 ideas

•24 authors from UK post-compulsory education

•Now free to download

Coming up…

•Social Media for Learning event – Liverpool John Moores 3rd June

•Creative Capture and Flipped Classroom event

•Media Enhanced Feedback event #2

•#BYOD4L – take 2 (June 2014)

•Online resource

•New book call – “Smart Learning”

(cc) by nc Incessant Flux

About today

• Housekeeping

• Full house

• Challenges, opportunities, ideas

• Your stories and ideas

• Morning – sessions together

• Then decide which parallel workshops

• Plenary – what we have learnt

Finally…

#MELSIGMMU http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html

• Thank you CELT at MMU! – Chrissi Nerantzi, Penny Sweasey and Lesley Hamoodi

• Dee Vyas (Learning Innovation team)

• Open Badges – thanks Ellie Livermore

• Challenges and Opportunities