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Supply and dem and researching m obile services for the University Julie Usher 19 th June 2012 W hy m obile? Drivers Strategic planning and pedagogy Marketing Demand? I nvestigating dem and Annual mobile survey:

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Supply and dem and – researching m obile services for the University

Julie Usher 19th June 2012

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W hy m obile?

Drivers

  • Strategic planning and pedagogy
  • Marketing
  • Demand?
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I nvestigating dem and

Annual ‘mobile survey’:

  • Nov 2010:

– representative sample of 5605 students and 305 staff – completed by 772 respondents (13% response) – 88% students and 12% staff.

  • Dec 2011

– representative sample of 2490 students and 1613 staff – completed by 678 respondents (16.5% response) – 34% students and 66% staff

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Key findings

What technology do students and staff own?

(based on data from Dec 2011)

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Key findings

What are they doing with the technology now?

  • 95% of respondents access the internet every day
  • 56% regularly use a mobile to browse the web
  • 29% regularly use a mobile to take notes
  • 17% regularly use a mobile to access and edit documents
  • 10-12% choose a mobile as their preferred device for

research, productivity and social learning

(based on data from Dec 2011)

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Key findings

What would they like to be able to do in the future? Services rated most useful to have on a mobile:

(based on data from Nov 2010)

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Responding to dem and

The MALT project:

  • Infrastructure
  • Mobile technologies
  • Effective practice
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Leading innovation in pedagogy

Pilot projects

  • Environmental Sciences
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Foundation Art & Design:

http: / / bit.ly/ uonmobileart

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Feedback so far

  • Over 10,000 downloads of the app
  • Over 3,500 ‘active users’ of the

mobile VLE

  • 85% of students rate mobile access

to NILE and timetables as ‘very useful’

  • Directory and library services also

highly rated by staff and students (75% or more rate these as useful)

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Next steps 1 – further developm ent

User driven– nearly 400 free text suggestions and comments in the 2011 survey

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Next steps 1 – further developm ent

Best use of the technology – initial demand doesn’t always equate to actual use

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Next steps 2 – em bedding

  • Disseminating good practice

– Ongoing research, case studies and presentations

  • Scalability and support

– Guides, training and awareness raising – Support for supplied devices? – Support for student devices?

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Questions / com m ents?

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Contact details

Julie Usher Learning Technology University of Northampton Email: julie.usher@northampton.ac.uk Twitter: @jules_u Web: northampton.ac.uk/ learntech

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References etc.

Useful links

  • More about the iNorthampton project:

http: / / www.northampton.ac.uk/ mobile

  • Guidelines on accessibility for the mobile web:

http: / / www.w3.org/ Mobile/

  • TechDis on mobile learning:

http: / / www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/ techdis/ investinyourself/ freeresources/ accessiblemobilelear ning

  • Traxler, J. (2010) “Students and mobile devices.” ALT-J Research in Learning

Technology [ online] 18.2, p149-160. Available from: http: / / www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/ index.php/ rlt/ article/ view/ 10759 [ Accessed 10th February 2012]

  • More info on JADU MyAPI (presentation by Steve Martin):

http: / / speakerdeck.com/ u/ s2martin/ p/ inorthampton-and-jadu Image credits

  • Photography by Rob Farmer, University of Northampton