Transcript Leeds Met Mobile Tech Pilot

Leeds Met Mobile Technology Pilot
Jill Taylor, Catherine Coates, Sara Eastburn, & Ieuan Ellis
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Aims of the Pilot
 Integrate mobile technologies into placement activities to include
both dietetics and physiotherapy pre-registration students.
 Evaluate the usability of mobile technology with both staff and
students.
 Deliver an enhanced student experience whilst on practice
placement.
 Evaluate the effectiveness of the mobile technology in supporting
assessment, learning and teaching activities.
 Define the ethical and data protection issues associated with the
use of mobile devices in practice settings to support ALT.
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Pilot Groups & Players
 20 MSc Physiotherapy (preregistration) students
 Five week placement
 5 university tutors
 supporting formative clinical debriefing
session
 support summative assessment for
Integrated Practice
 26 BSc Dietetic (pre-registration)
students
 Twelve week placement
 4 university tutors and 2 link tutors
 10 students: PDAs and 16:PCs
 support the summative assessment for
Reflection and Consolidation of
Practice module
 Learning activities:
– log of pivotal incidents that support critical analysis + higher level
thinking
– opportunity for inter-professional interaction to enhance interprofessional and collaborative working
– support reflective and reflexive learning experiences
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The “Kit”
 Ethics:
– Student proforma
 Hardware: O2 XDA Mini-S
 Support & Training
– Training sessions: mediaBoard & CCS
– WebCT module: documentation &
surveys
– CCS support: telephone support
 Software: mediaBoard:
– Build web-based multimedia message
boards, add comments using SMS (text)
or MMS from a mobile phone (picture)
or by Email or web access
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mediaBoard
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mediaBoard examples
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Evaluation Strategy
Three key questions addressed
 What is the experience of learners and practitioners?
– Did it improve the student experience?
– Did it improve their knowledge and skills?
 What use was made of it to enrich ALT?
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Was it integrated into the assessment?
How well learners understood the intended aims?
Did they benefit in expected and unexpected ways?
Were there enhancements to teaching and learning?
 How easy is it to use and implement?
– What problems were encountered.
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Data Collection & Capture
Students
– Pre and post WebCT survey
– Focus groups
– mediaBoard: student issues; evaluation
Staff
– Pre and post WebCT survey
– Semi-structured interviews
– mediaBoard: staff issues
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Students: Pre-survey
Which mobile devices do you own?
Who is your contract with?
Which of the following do you have on your mobile device?
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Students: Pre-survey
How confident are you at using a
mobile phone?
Which of the following operations
are you confident you can do?
Do you use your mobile device for
any of the following?
How do you feel about being
involved in the mobile pilot?
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Pre-survey Comments
“I think it will be good to
have access all of the time
to share ideas”
“I think this is a great
idea
“ I am interested in being
able to contact other
students but concerned it
will take up too much time
learning about how to use
it”
“Looking forward to
Internet connection on the
go”
“ I am worried that it will
take more of my time when
I’m already going to be
stressed with the
workload”
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Benefits:
Tutor & Peer Support
“..useful for contacting
visiting tutor at university
whilst on placement”
Has the use of your PDA and/or mediaBoard
helped you in any of the following areas?
“I think the mediaBoard is
very clever for students to
leave messages for others..”
“..useful as we had projects
to do together so we used it a
lot for that”
“… useful to phone Mike
because he had done a
respiratory placement before
so when I finished at the end
of the day I would give him a
call and get his views…I
found that quite useful”
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Benefits:
Accessing & Recording Information
“..if I didn’t know something
and I was seeing a patient I
would look up a condition on
the Internet from my PDA-and
that was good”
Has the use of your PDA and/or mediaBoard
helped you in any of the following areas?
“I used it heaps and heaps
to access information…”
“I was staying in Hull in
accommodation where you
don’t have internet access so
I used it quite a bit”
“Being able to take
pictures during in-services (xray for example) acts as a
useful trigger for recalling
information”
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Benefits:
Skills Development
 “…good for recording
data and evaluating and
reflecting upon clinical
experiences”
 “…get more out of it if
you record your
thoughts…especially for
reflective practice”
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Issues:
Ethics & Cultural Change
“..Sometimes when I was
getting shown something
on a patient, then that
would have been useful
but you can’t do it.”
“Obviously I had explained
it to my supervisor but all
the other staff, like
psychologists or
occupational therapists
were all looking at me as if
to say “What’s she doing
on her mobile phone?”…..”
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“Some people might have
thought the money could
go on better things rather
than giving us a phone”
My educator said:
“you should use it,
you’ve been given it, and
all the doctors use it so
why not use it”
……….so I dared use it….”
Issues:
Time
“I think the mediaBoard
could be very useful
although I didn’t have time
to use it”
“Too much in an already
hectic schedule”
“would have used it if I had
more time ”
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I would be more motivated to use
mediaBoard if I had more time?
Issues:
Engagement
I would be more motivated to use
mediaBoard if tasks counted towards assessment?
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Issues:
Technical
“A bit bulky to carry around
whilst in uniform”
Which method did you use to enter data?
“Couldn’t send video”
“Can they do anything with
the speed of the Internet
connection?”
“..it got stolen –so I’d say
that was a problem! It was
akind of responsibility”
“The mediaBoard didn’t
work to start with…so noone kept doing it”
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Tutor Evaluation: Ongoing
Initial feedback:
Communication facilitated
Training
Cultural change and engagement
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Lessons Learned
 Introduce the technology early in the course
to encourage familiarity and develop cultural
acceptance.
 Tasks need to be more directive and
embedded in the assessment strategy.
 Encourage acceptance by the clinical
educators and tutors.
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Continuation Ideas
 Build up “resource boards” prior to and during
placement
 Collection of multimedia objects and
reflections to link with e-portfolios.
 Enhanced use of the communication
functions which would include more use of
the “text alert” function.
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For more information
mediaBoard website:
www.m-learning.org
Jill Taylor:
[email protected]
Catherine Coates:
[email protected]
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