Päivi Tikkala's & Juha Heimovirta's report from BETT 2013.

1. BETT 2013
Päivi Tikkala & Juha Heimovirta, Learning & Educational Technology Research Unit, Oulu university

2. What is BETT
• BETT (former the British Educational Training and
Technology Show) is a global community where
individuals discover technology for education and
lifelong learning.
• BETT tracks:
• Technology in Higher Education
• Workplace Learning
• SEN (Special Education Needs)
• BETT show
• 700 exhibitors
• Over 30 000 visitors

3. BETT Tracks
Future learning trends for digital age - How are
people learning?
Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor of Pharmacology at
Oxford University
• Plasticity of our brains, physical => mental
• More connections in a brain cell = more meaning & learning
• The 21st century environment is unprecedented => the brain
will be changing correspondingly in new ways
o Lot's of activities which not give "food" to our brains
o Brain - you use it or you lose it!
• Book: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from
Technology and Less from Each Other (Sherry Turkle, 2012).

4. Keeping abreast of new technology:
Managing the balance between relevance,
stability and risk
Niall Sclater, Director of Learning and Teaching, The Open
University
• Risks
o Technical, pedagogical,
cultural, business
• Risk evaluating
o Benchmarking
o research/publications/reports
o tweets/emails
o conferences
• Organization level technology
scenarios are done by identifying
risks and applying the
needed/relevant technologies

5. BYOD strategy and implementation: Creating a
strategy that copes with differing student access to
smart devices
Steve Bowman, Deputy Librarian, University of Chichester
BYOD = Bring Your Own Device Implementation:
BYOT = Bring Your Own Technology • Outsourcing the function?
BYOB = Bring Your Own Behaviour • Capacity versus coverage
• Separate network for BYOD
Challenges: • Authentication & security
• All students don't have the latest • Interoperability of applications and
technology => tension, competition proprietary platforms
• High fees of school / university => • Pedagogy - needs individuals who
school should buy the equipment understand how to bring the
• Students don't want to carry the devices into learning
equipment

6. Workplace Learning:
Formal/Informal
• One way of bringing the informal learning to
an organization is 70/20/10 -model
o 70 % Informal learning
o 20 % Social learning
o 10 % Formal learning
• Father of the model: Charles Jennings
(http://charlesjennings.blogspot.fi/2011/08/so
cial-workplace-learning-through.html
"Organizations with strong informal learning
capabilities, including the adoption and use of social
learning tools and the development of a global
learning culture, are three times more likely to excel
at global talent development than organizations
without those competencies. (Bersin & Associates,
2012"

7. BETT Show: Active Boards & Tables & UIs

8. BETT Show: Active Boards & Tables & UIs

9. BETT Show: Active Boards & Tables & UIs

10. BETT Show: Furniture

11. BETT Show: Tablets

12. BETT Show: Learning environments

13. BETT Show: Others Stuff

14. BETT Show: 3D Printers

15. BETT Show: Augmented Reality

16. BETT Show: Sensors

17. BETT Show: Robots