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Global Learn Berlin 2015:
Global Conference on Learning and Technology "The Local Global Conference"
Barriers to the Integration and Adoption of
iPads in Schools: A Systematic Literature
Review based on the philosophy of “think global, act
local.”
Md. Saifuddin Khalid | Gökce Kilic | Jeanette Christoffersen | Aparna Purushothaman

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Barriers to the Integration and Adoption of iPads in
Schools: A Systematic Literature
❖ Introduction
❖ Research Question
❖ Methods
❖ Results & Discussion
❖ Conclusion

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Introduction
❖ The literature review originates from the public initiatives in
the Danish context and the ongoing discussion on how
digital technologies must be integrated into the learning
environments.
❖ The challenges in using iPad as a learning tool in primary
and secondary educational settings.
❖ This review is based on the philosophy, "Think global, Act
local”

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Research Question
❖ What are the barriers affecting the integration of iPad in
a learning environment in primary and secondary
schools?

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Methods
❖ The methodology involving
searching, screening, assessing
for eligibility and exclusion

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Results & Discussion
❖ Basic challenges
❖ iPad as a learning tool
❖ Literature on the iPad in an educational context
❖ Barriers to the integration of the iPad
❖ Costs
❖ Skills
❖ Barriers in the use of the iPad
❖ Barriers in learning
❖ iPad’s influence of the teaching method

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Basic challenges
❖ iPad as a learning tool
❖ Most of the mobile handheld devices which are used as
educational or learning tools were not originally designed to be a
part of a learning environment.
❖ Literature on the iPad in an educational context
❖ The most of the articles reflect positive experiences with iPad,
while the media shows many frustrations with iPad when used as
a part of the learning environments

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Barriers to the integration of the iPad
❖ Costs
❖ The iPad is relatively expensive to buy, and more expensive than
some notebooks and tablet PCs in the market.
❖ Skills
❖ Skills play an important role in using any technological tool when
it is used as a learning tool in an educational context.

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Barriers in the use of the iPad
❖ Barriers in learning
❖ Use of technology does not necessarily lead to increasing
students' presentation and the use of a technology and its
contents must match the student’s level of competence.
❖ iPad’s influence of the teaching method
❖ Technologies have been seen as a digital addition to teaching
and have addressed question concerning the devices to be
selected.

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Conclusion
❖ The aim
❖ Brief overview
❖ Future work

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Questions and Comments
Citation: Khalid, Md. Saifuddin, Gökce Kilic, and Jeanette Christoffersen.
“Barriers to the Integration and Adoption of iPads in Schools: A Systematic
Literature Review Based on the Philosophy of ‘Think Global, Act Local.’” In
Proceedings of Global Learn 2015, 2015:35–45. FernUniversität in Hagen,
Regionalzentrum Berlin: April 16-17, 2015: Association for the Advancement
of Computing in Education (AACE), 2015. http://www.editlib.org/pv/150926/.