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

Barriers to the Integration and Adoption of iPads in Schools: A Systematic Literature

❖ Introduction

❖ Research Question

❖ Methods

❖ Results & Discussion

❖ Conclusion

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”

Research Question

❖ What are the barriers affecting the integration of iPad in

a learning environment in primary and secondary

schools?

Methods

❖ The methodology involving

searching, screening, assessing

for eligibility and exclusion

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

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

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.

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.

Conclusion

❖ The aim

❖ Brief overview

❖ Future work

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/.