Josh Harding: UKSG Conference 2013
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The document discusses how tablet computing can help medical students access information more efficiently. It outlines Joshua Harding's journey from paper-based notes to a digital workflow using apps like Notability, GoodReader, Inkling, and Mendeley on an iPad. This allowed him to take notes, annotate textbooks, access resources and lectures anywhere. Harding argues that interactive digital textbooks and a unified platform will be the future. Publishers and institutions need to adapt by providing affordable digital options and improving digital literacy support for students.
Josh Harding: UKSG Conference 2013
- 1. The Student-Information Relationship By Joshua Harding
- 2. Agenda • Setting the scene • Tablet computing • Consulting information • Workflows • Barriers & Challanges • An ideal future • Q & A • Conclusion
- 4. MBChB - Medicine • In 18 months I had covered the same amount of content! • Information overload! • I needed to be able to access • Lots of Info • Quickly • Efficiently Our core texts had all the answers No! But we will try anyway!
- 5. So did I find a solution? Yes Digital Consumption I am a paperless student
- 7. MBChB - Medicine • Search across all my content & resources • Seamlessly switch between note taking, resource apps & textbooks • ↑ Efficacy • ↓ Time taken • ↓ Stress, ↑ Satisfaction • On demand society
- 8. Tablet Computing • Not a new idea • Powerful personalised education tool • 18 months – If not sooner! • Expectations will rise! We remember 20% of what we read 30% of what we hear 40% of what we see 50% of what we say 60% of what we do Why use one as a student? • Adoption of a device that allows this = no brainer! • Personalised education experience Flexible • Desire is present Ultimately we remember 90% of what we read, see, hear, say and do • Question - “So why haven’t you bought one?” • Answer – “I’ve always wanted to buy one, but I’ve never been sure how I could actually use it.”
- 9. Consulting Information • Notes & Resources at my finger tips • Notability (Note taking app) – Take a history from the patient • Answer questions with confidence • Refresh memory • Perform with confidence • Instant feedback
- 10. Consulting Information • British National Formulary (BNF) – Resource App Instant learning & subsequent reinforcement Pocket Body (Anatomy App) • Recap anatomy • Forefront of mind • Anchor points • Improved learning • ↑ retention
- 11. Consulting Information • Notes GoodReader • Inkling – Essential Clinical Anatomy • Things (Task manager app)
- 12. Consulting Information • Notability (Note taking app) – Annotate lecture notes – Record lecture • Inkling • GoodReader (Notes) • Resource Apps • Internet
- 13. Consulting Information • Things • Inkling • GoodReader • Recourse Apps • Notability • Evernote
- 14. • Cluttered • Analogue & basic • Difficulty w/ multiple sources • Can get lost • Simple, efficient • Interactive textbook • Audio/visual content • Can’t get lost
- 16. Notability • Best selling note taker of 2012 – Handwritten, Typed, Recorded Notes – PDF annotation, Web clipping, Pictures • Exceptional hand writing quality & speed – Zoom window • Auto sync to the cloud – You can’t lose your notes! • Closest experience to a pen & paper – Marginally slower
- 17. GoodReader • PDF Viewer & Library • Fast & Smooth PDF viewing – Tabs allow for multiple PDFs – Opens MS office files, pictures, audio & video • Mark up PDFs – Handwritten & typed notes, pop-up comments – Highlighted text, shapes, underlines & strikeout • Organises & handles large PDF files • Syncs with the cloud
- 18. Inkling • Interactive, Smart, Multi-touch – books • The future of the textbook – Intuitive navigation – Interactive, movies, animations, music, podcasts, s lideshows, interactive images, 3D models – Search through the entire book – Highlight text, make notes & share them • Purchase per chapter – Free content updates
- 21. Maximising digital potential • Interactive textbooks as a base model • Smart textbooks would be irresistible! • Why? Simple You will get a better grade • What do I want my textbook to do? – Whilst I study it, it studies me – Inform me of my progress – Adapt the content of the book to me – Be a personal study buddy – A true personal learning environment – Compare me to my peers
- 23. Dropbox • The fulcrum of a digital student • Upload, Sync & Download all your content – Offline viewing – Never lose your content • Organises your files • Sharing
- 24. Sharing Is Caring • Dropbox shared folders – Sharing resources – Automatic downloads – Specific shared links
- 25. Sharing Is Caring • Facebook – Crowd sharing
- 26. Sharing Is Caring • Mendeley • Papers & Articles – Reference manager – Academic social network – Read & Annotate (basic) – Collaborate – Generate bibliographies – Sync to Mendeley
- 27. Barriers to being a digital student 1. Awareness – Solutions • Librarians – Digital literacy, Student advisors • Publishers – Free (offline) ebooks with paper copies 2. Costs – Solutions • Upfront costs wont change – Loaning from libraries? • Publishers Institutional and Private consumption
- 28. Challenges • Key dichotomy – Private consumption – Institutional consumption • I get free access to all the popular texts in paper form from my library • So why not digital? • Fragmentation, Reduced Variety & Variable Quality
- 29. My ideal workflow • Interactive textbooks as a standard – Export content from (in PDF format) to my notes • Interactive textbooks – One universal store to buy them (privately) – One universal platform to view them on – Easy to loan from my library (free) • Apply learning analytics • Institutional subscriptions to Apps
- 30. Any questions?
- 31. Conclusion • Digital consumption is the future – Smartbooks > Interactive Textbooks > PDFs > ePubs > Paper textbooks – Viewable offline & in third party apps • Paperless students will become more common • Publishers need to adapt – Free tools like iBooks Author – Universities are capable of producing & publishing better quality books than what the current market provides (ePub) & for free! – When they realise this Power shift? Are you worried yet? • Libraries & Institutions need to re-organise – Funds to incorporate Apps & more digital content – Improve digital literacy, advise and thus ↑ awareness
- 32. Thank you for your time Please feel free to contact me Joshua James Harding J.J.Harding@warwick.ac.uk @PaperlessMedic http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/joshua- harding/6a/56a/467/