This is a small talk on an Educational experience at the Open University of Catalonia regarding the use of an iPad in order to improve the user learning experience.

1. Enhancing learning: rethinking the educational iPad devices in a master's course materials (Teaching Innovation Project) Office of Learning Technologies Universitat Oberta de Catalunya learningtechnologies.uoc.edu

2. 0. Main Goal Exploiting of the potential that the addition of a device like the iPad represents to postgraduate teaching, focusing on the reconsideration of some materials to take advantage of this device performance. Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu 0 UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA

3. 1. Context UOC Màster of Cultural Management From February 2011 (OLT from March) Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu 1 UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA

4. 2. Solution applied Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu 2 UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA Collecting, in an epub document, different ways of presenting the information that forms a module of a particular subject inside the Cultural Management M.S. at UOC.

5. 3. Types of content Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu 3 UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA Text links: Chuncks of text linked to web pages, videos or documents.

6. 3. Types of content Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu 3 UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA Image links: Images inside text linked to blogs, videos or documents.

7. 3. Types of content Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu 3 UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA Embedded link to application: Representative images linked to open an application intalled in the iPad. We used the Total Recall app for making a mind map and we put a link to it inside the text.

8. 4. Current status Office of Learning Technologies · learningtechnologies.uoc.edu 2 UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA Rigth now the Pilot Test is developing with 3 students from the Master of Cultural Management, with a 3G iPad each one for make the test of the modified material. This pilot began on the first week of december 2011 and is going to end in late february. We will make some interviews to the participants in order to collect information about their experiences on the pilot.

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