A short introduction to MELSIG, the special focus on Smart Devices for Learning, the book projects, Challenge and opportunity cards, and thanks to MMU.

1. Manchester Metropolitan University
14 April 2014
#MELSIGMMU
@melsiguk
Smart Devices for
Learning #3
Andrew Middleton
Sheffield Hallam University
Chair of MELSIG http://melsig.shu.ac.uk/

2. Welcome to the 20th
event
Media-Enhanced Learning
Special Interest Group
• Digital and social media
• Together
• Sharing practice
• Generating ideas
• Asking questions
• Ideas and risky thinking
• Innovation and change

3. Smart Devices for Learning
•Connectivity – always on
•Personal - not institutional
•Authentic and ubiquitous –
ever-present like 'intelligent clothing'
•Changing the learning context and
the learning environment
•How?
•Today: diverse experience and
interests
•Online resource and book
(cc) ) by sa Saad Faruque

4. Digital Voices
• Representing the MELSIG ethos
• How the recorded voices of
teachers, students, employers,
professionals and many others
can change and enhance
learning
• Essays, case studies and 50
ideas
• 24 authors from UK post-
compulsory education
• Now free to download

5. Coming up…
•Social Media for Learning event –
Liverpool John Moores 3rd
June
•Creative Capture and Flipped
Classroom event
•Media Enhanced Feedback event #2
•#BYOD4L – take 2 (June 2014)
•Online resource
•New book call – “Smart Learning”
(cc) by nc Incessant Flux

6. About today
• Housekeeping
• Full house
• Challenges, opportunities, ideas
• Your stories and ideas
• Morning – sessions together
• Then decide which parallel
workshops
• Plenary – what we have learnt

7. Finally…
#MELSIGMMU http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html
• Thank you CELT at MMU!
– Chrissi Nerantzi, Penny Sweasey and
Lesley Hamoodi
• Dee Vyas (Learning Innovation team)
• Open Badges – thanks Ellie Livermore
• Challenges and
Opportunities