Use of wireless tablet PCs as an effective learning and teaching enhancement tool

Wei Xiang; Steven Goh; Selvan Pather; Andrew Maxwell; H Wang; Harry Ku

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Use of wireless tablet PCs as an effective learning and teaching enhancement tool

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Use of wireless tablet PCs as an effective learning and teaching enhancement tool

Wei Xiang, Steven Goh, Selvan Pather, Andrew Maxwell, H Wang and Harry Ku

Proceedings of the 2009 EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference, pp.1-11

EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference: Innovate, Collaborate and Sustain, 2009 (Perth, Australia, 03-May-2009–06-May-2009)

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2009

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Specialist Studies in Education

This paper examines the concept of using Tablet PCs as a potential effective learning and teaching (L&T) enhancement tool in classroom environments. It reports on findings and recommendations of a faculty sponsored L&T enhancement project in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), which aims to investigate the role of wireless enabled Tablet PCs as a L&T enhancement tool and its impact on student retention and progression. The project has identified scenarios of using Table PCs by educators in classroom settings. These include using Tablet PC as a presentation medium with hand-drawing functionality, an electronic assignment marker, a lecture recording tool, and a wireless video projector. Pedagogical aspects of wireless tablet PCs are widely exploited in this paper. It has been discovered that the use of tablet PCs as a teaching tool helps improve on parity between on-campus and external students, improve on interactivity between teachers and students, illustration of concepts, and turnaround of marking assignments.

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Title: Use of wireless tablet PCs as an effective learning and teaching enhancement tool
Authors: Wei Xiang (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Steven Goh (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Selvan Pather (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Andrew Maxwell (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
H Wang (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Harry Ku (Author) - University of Southern Queensland
Publication details: Proceedings of the 2009 EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference, pp.1-11
Conference details: EDUCAUSE Australasia Conference: Innovate, Collaborate and Sustain, 2009 (Perth, Australia, 03-May-2009–06-May-2009)
Publisher: EDUCAUSE
Date published: 2009
Organisation Unit: School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448903102621
Output Type: Conference paper

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