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Title
Mobile engagement at Scottsdale Community College: the Apple iPad in an English honors class
Description
This dissertation reports on an action research study that sought to discover how a new WiFi, tablet computing device, the Apple iPad, affected, enhanced, and impacted student engagement in an English Honors course at Scottsdale Community College. The researcher was also the instructor in the two semester, first-year, college composition sequence (English 101/102) in which all 18 students were provided the new Apple iPad tablet computing device. The researcher described how students adapted the Apple iPads to their academic lives, assessed iPad compatibility with current instructional technology systems, and interviewed participating students to document their beliefs about whether iPad activities enhanced the course. At the conclusion of the college composition sequence, 13 students agreed to participate in focus groups to describe how they made use of the iPad and to report on how the iPad influenced their engagement. Among other findings, students reported that there were compatibility problems with current SCC instructional technology systems, that the iPad increased their efficiency in completing informal educational tasks, but that the iPad was not useful for doing word processing and research. Recommendations for future use of the iPad in this course include reducing the number of iPads accessing the WiFi network at the same time, piloting the use of iPad word processing applications, researching more "mobile-friendly" web sites and documents, and developing innovative assignments that take advantage of iPad capabilities.
Date Created
2011
Contributors
- Tualla, Larry Tech (Author)
- Clark, Christopher M. (Thesis advisor)
- De Los Santos Jr., Alfredo G (Thesis advisor)
- Young, Lisa C. (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Education
- Educational technology
- Educational leadership
- College Composition
- community college
- iPad
- Mobile Learning
- mobile technology
- undergraduate education
- iPad (Computer)
- Mobile communication systems in education--Arizona--Scottsdale.
- Mobile communication systems in education
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Arizona--Scottsdale.
- English language
- Community college students--Arizona--Scottsdale--Attitudes.
- Community college students
Resource Type
Extent
viii, 105 p
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14336
Statement of Responsibility
by Larry Tech Tualla
Description Source
Viewed on October 4, 2012
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2011
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-84)
Field of study: Higher and postsecondary education
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