Make your course content more accessible and increase student engagement by leveraging mobile devices and social media tools to communicate lessons, readings, assignments and feedback to students in and out of the traditional classroom. In this workshop, we will go over how to make your course content mobile-friendly and accessible to students outside of the classroom. Leverage social media and social media tools to keep students informed, engaged and interacting with content, peers and you (the instructor).

1. Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
High Ed Web – Buffalo
Oct 7th, 2013
Guacamelee copyright Juice Box Games

2. Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Andrew Smyk
Program Coordinator
twitter: @andrewsmyk
Interactive Multimedia
Sheridan College

3. Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
New technologies

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetriggerhappypenguin/5141870424

6. 66
Comfy? Let’s begin

7. Content Knowledge
1.1
@**$#?!?

8. 8
#icantbelievehejustusedaninvertedgutwrenchpowerbomb
beinchargeofyou.com

10. Professors With Personal Tweets
Get High Credibility Marks
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-with-personal-tweets-get-high-credibility-marks/30635

11. Time to test credibility hypothesis:

12. Content Knowledge
1.6
4.8
No Twitter
With Twitter

13. Why?

14. What do the slate tablet,
pencil, calculator, laptop and
cell phones all have
in common?

15. What do the slate tablet,
pencil, calculator, laptop and
cell phones all have
in common?

17. 17

29. .5%
of students will sign up for general SMS
notifications about class

32. 98%

33. 98%
of students will sign up for SMS
notifications if it about cancelling class

34. 34

35. Broadcasting and communicating needs
to be focused and strategic

36. •Folding Chalk Board
+
•Face Time

37. •Folding Chalk Board
+
•Face Time
Building relationships with technology

38. Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Learning Management Systems

39. Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Become a LMS Luchador

40. Black Box
your LMS is a

41. Clear Box
build a
experience

42. What about my mobile LMS app?

44. BYOD
But it’s a
world

45. 50%of your students can’t participate
approximately

48. #ffly #rwd

49. • responsive Wordpress themes
• responsive boiler plates
• responsive frameworks

52. What to learners/students want?
Presentation/
Attractiveness
Content Access
Communicative
Enablement
Technical
Functionality
Learner Support
July – September 2004: International Journal on E-Learning Alex Koohang & Jacques De Plessis

53. It’s all about the
Content
and content access

54. Create opportunities for full (contact)
interaction with your course content

55. Multi-sensory experiences
enhance interaction and the
relationship with content

57. 21%2012
second screen experience
36%2013
85%
70%78%tablet/phone

58. The higher the number of
devices you can reach, the
higher the engagement with
your course content.

59. access = engagement
(that’s pedagogy, baby!)

60. 60
Free-roaming learners
Anytime, Anywhere

61. Mobile has become the student’s first choice
for internet access - NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011

62. 48%of 18 to 29-year-olds, a mobile phone is
the primary way of getting online
- Cell Internet Use 2012 – Pew Internet

63. 57%of 18 to 29-year-olds, a mobile phone is
the primary way of getting online
- Cell Internet Use 2013 – Pew Internet

64. 90 percent of young people sleep next
to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank

65. 90 percent of young people sleep next
to their cell phones – Pew Research Center The Databank

66. Pivot, Snack, Burst

67. students “snack” in bed and more often
during times of boredom

68. 4 in 104 in 10
students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey
students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey

69. students do last second prep on a
phone before a test - Hack College Survey

70. Content access

71. Quality of Content
1.2
4.8
Strictly
LMS
Mobile
Friendly
Built in Bias?

72. Forge ahead

73. Make mistakes

74. Stay calm

75. There is no road map

80. • encourage tweeting
• provide a hashtag
• post tweets relevant to content
• retweet relevant student tweets*
• acknowledge student work*

88. 51% of its active user base
access FB using mobile

89. • posting class notices
• responding to student questions
• general topic conversations
• providing resources

90. Communications
.8
4.2
email
social
media

91. Conclusion

92. Access your course content for one week
on mobile to see what pain points exist in
your accessing your online content.

93. It’s OK to make mistakes,
this is not brain surgery
(Unless you are actually doing brain surgery)

94. Students will forgive mistakes, when
trying to implement something new.
(You will get lots of feedback how to make it better)
(Unless you’ve performed brain surgery on said students)

96. Leveraging mobile to increase
student engagement
Andrew Smyk
HighWeb Ed – Arkansas
July 27, 2012
Questions? Comments?
twitter: @andrewsmyk
andrew@andrewsmyk.com

98. Resources & Credits
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/21976482@N04/3244983458/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - treasure - Piotr Lewand
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cavercaroline/4425551695/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - phone in bed - Caroline Caver
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/photogirlaz/4524779331/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - sleeping - Photo Girl AZ
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/5607484228/ - Lecture Hall – Hack NY
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/threehundredsixtyfive/3506146606/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - chalkboard - Unique Apple
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosipaw/4328473236/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - cellphones - Rosie Paw
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenccwu/3403571542/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - student surfing – Stehpen CC Wu
• http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/437300414_c9c2c0ef78_b.jpg - payphone keyboard
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrycady/5399344827/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Stanton Cady - speakers
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/3986524856/sizes/o/in/photostream/ - Cuba Gallery - old radio
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/leehaywood/7509715314/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - Lee Haywood - military radio
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/vincetemplement/3333125657/sizes/z/in/photostream/ - zombie - Vince Templement
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopherw/536546030/sizes/l/in/photostream/ - messy room - Christopher Woods
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/margolove/2309415588/ - Chalk Board –Margolove
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/7382255242/ Trail of Devices – Lyza Danger
• Cellphones in a Pile - Courtesy Geitan Lee, flickr.com
• Blackboard Mobile Learning - http://www.blackboard.com/Platforms/Mobile/Products/Mobile-Learn.aspx
• Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks
• Essential Elements of Digital Literacies
• Cell Internet Use
• NMC Horizons Technologies Report 2011
• Educating for innovation
• Architecting Usability Properties in the E-Learning Instructional Design Process