BYOD Toolkit (1 May 2013 Jisc Legal has published a BYOD toolkit in response to the rise in learners and employees using their personal computing devices (typically smart phones and tablets) in the work and learning environment. The toolkit includes a variety of resources: 1. Your Staff, Mobile Devices, Law and Liability To some extent bring your own device (BYOD) is already happening in your institution. 2. Students will increasingly expect that all information and services currently available from a university or college desktop will be available to them via their mobile device. 3. This paper provides a quick reference for managers as to the main legal risks which need to be assessed against your institution’s risk strategy before opening your institution’s ICT system to mobile access by staff and students using their own devices. 4.
Digitally Confident | Adults Our phones have become an integral part of our lives, and have fundamentally changed the way we work, the way we navigate the world, and the way we communicate with friends and family. But do smartphones with all their interactive, location, and connectivity features and apps compromise our privacy and information security? Justin Cappos, an assistant professor at NYU-Poly, is an expert in the field of cyber security, and he does NOT own a cell phone. He argues that the smartphone is the ultimate tracking device, and that pre-installed and cheaper applications may be aiming to monitor your mobile behavior rather than keep you entertained. Watch below as Cappos and his colleague Prof.
Younity Makes All Your Files Available Everywhere You Need Them AUSTIN — We’ve all been there: You get to the office only to realize you left the document you were working on all night at home. Enter Younity, a service that attempts to make all of your files available on all your devices whenever you want them, with no need to intentionally sync those files to make them available. The company started working on the idea in 2010, but raised its first bit of capital and began building a team in late 2011. We caught up with Younity’s CEO and co-founder Erik Caso to learn a little more. What does Younity do? Younity lets you have all your files, on all your devices, all the time — without syncing or planning ahead and without incompatibilities or storage limits, magic folders, configuration or management of any kind. Younity is about easy, instant access to all types of files, but especially media libraries. What made you start the company? It was born out of necessity. While I used (and still use) services like Dropbox, I ran out of storage immediately.
The Teacher's Quick Guide To Digital Scavenger Hunts If you’ve got a smartphone or a tablet in your classroom, you’re ready for the adventure to begin! By adventure I mean, of course, the world of active learning through digital scavenger hunts. In this hunt, students are tasked with finding a particular physical object, person, or place and have to use technology to track it down. The Simple Goal So now that you’re all ready to start your very first scavenger hunt, let’s figure out what the goals are. Finding The Technology Like the movie National Treasure, students will need a lot of ingenuity and tools to help them uncover the mysteries you’ve laid out before them. In an effort to get your scavenger hunt jump-started, here are a few useful tech tools that might be of use. SCVNGR – A useful free app that lets you create your very own digital scavenger hunts, start to finish. The Apple iPhone (newer models) or Android smartphone (newer models) – Whether you love or hate Apple or Android doesn’t matter. Finding An Objective A Quick Note
Technology brings classroom experience to distance learners Course materials can be downloaded on to mobile devices and accessed by students wherever they are. Photograph: Mike Harrington/Lifesize Students on the University of Leicester's new distance learning MSc in security, conflict and international development face more challenges than the average distance learner. For example, some students might spend weeks with no access to an internet connection, working in a refugee camp in post-conflict countries. How does the university make sure these remote students have everything they needed to carry out their studies? "When you're doing that sort of thing, you can't be carrying huge folders of printed material," says Prof Adrian Beck, head of the university's department of criminology. The solution was to give every student on the course a free iPad, on to which they could download a bespoke app and all the course materials. Mobile devices offer not just convenience and flexibility, but potentially a new way of studying.
Tablets more popular than e-readers among e-book crowd | Internet & Media More people are reading e-books, and more of them are using tablets as their primary way of doing so. The percentage of Americans who now read e-books rose to 23 percent in 2012 from 16 percent a year ago, says a report out today from Pew Internet. Over the same time, the percentage of those who read printed books dropped to 67 percent from 72 percent. From the poll conducted in October and November, the percentage of people who own a tablet or dedicated e-reader jumped to 33 percent from just 18 percent a year ago. But among the two types of devices, tablets are proving more dominant. As of November, 25 percent of those polled said they own a tablet, while 19 percent own a dedicated reader. Libraries are also feeling the greater interest in e-books. Who's reading all these e-books? Among those polled, the ones most likely to read an e-book included people with college or graduate degrees, those with households incomes more than $75,000, and folks between 30 and 49 years old.
Mobile Device Evalaution Project (Phase 1) Report | peter walder Q5. Please comment on the visual quality of the text, images and video and alsothe quality of the audio output There was almost universal agreement in the responses that the visual resolution of text and images was very good. Comments were typically of the kind '…..clear and easy to read. Those staff that had used video and audiobased media were also impressed. e.g '…..Visual and audio was impressiveconsidering the size of the tablet…' . One comment was received regarding the lackof compatibility in respect of the use of Flash based media on iOS devices. Q6. This question sort feedback on issues such as the use of the virtual keyboard, use of dialogue boxes, the process of launching applications etc. '….using the device without a mouse and external keyboard takes some getting used to for those of us with less touchscreen experience. keyboard felt quiet awkward at first but soon became comfortable and easy to use…'. Overall staff seemed to be able to use the devices effectively. Q7. Q8.
Evaluating eBooks for learning and teaching | Researching the value of multimedia eBooks compared to other academic materials in a variety of disciplines and academic settings. Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET) The Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNET) is a unique collaborative approach to encouraging, supporting, expanding and promoting mobile learning. It is 'certainly the UK’s, and probably the world’s, largest and most diverse implementation of mobile learning to date. 115 colleges and 29 schools are, or have been, involved in MoLeNET. Approximately 10,000 learners were involved in 2007/08, around 20,000 learners in 2008/09 and the same again in 1009/10 together with over 4,000 staff.' The LSN and consortia led by Further Education colleges have together invested over £12 million in MoLeNET. LSN chose Tribal as partner in MoLeNET Jill Attewell from Learning and Skills Network (LSN) talks about why Tribal was chosen as a partner in the MoLeNET project (October 2008): Useful resources from MoLeNET: Some MoLeNET videos from YouTube:
Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves Tablet test: Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop Per Child, describes experiments involving children in Ethiopia at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference. With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per Child organization is trying something new in two remote Ethiopian villages—simply dropping off tablet computers with preloaded programs and seeing what happens. The goal: to see if illiterate kids with no previous exposure to written words can learn how to read all by themselves, by experimenting with the tablet and its preloaded alphabet-training games, e-books, movies, cartoons, paintings, and other programs. Early observations are encouraging, said Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC’s founder, at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference last week. The devices involved are Motorola Xoom tablets—used together with a solar charging system, which Ethiopian technicians had taught adults in the village to use.
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BYOD4L – Bring Your Own Devices For Learning | ALT Online Newsletter This post introduces the design and delivery of BYOD4L – Bring Your Own Devices For Learning ( a team effort based on an idea by Chrissi Nerantzi. Chrissi and Sue Beckingham who developed the concept into an exciting learning event drawing on Chrissi’s experience of open collaborative course design and her knowledge of open educational practice in the area of professional development of teachers in higher education – the focus of her PhD. Sue brings her research interest of social media. The initial idea was to create an open collaborative learning event using smartphones and tablets for learning and teaching targeted at both teachers and students and we linked it to the Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group led by Andrew Middleton, a related conference and book project around Smart Learning. Development of BYOD4L started in autumn 2013 and the event was offered for the first time in January 2014 over five days.