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

3. BSc (Hons) Physiology

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

6. MBChB - Medicine

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

22. Resource AppseBooks Lectures

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/