The College of Education iPad Project:

Context and Goals

Context for the iPad Project: The College of Education’s project to provide all full-time faculty
and administrators with iPads is grounded in the College’s Conceptual Framework. The project
supports our commitment to the knowledge, skills and dispositions of the profession by providing
faculty with the opportunity to design, develop and implement innovative pedagogical strategies
to meet the needs of our 21st century educator candidates. It supports our commitment to
diversity by allowing faculty and administrators to engage in a collaborative exploration of new
tools specifically designed to meet the needs of our candidates as well as the needs of the
learners these candidates will serve. The role of the program in supporting our college’s
commitment to technology is an obvious link. Through this project, faculty and administrators
will find themselves in the forefront of use of cutting-edge technology for teaching, learning,
scholarship and personal productivity. Finally, the iPad project incorporates multiple approaches
to the practice of continuous reflection and assessment. Assessment of the project’s overall goals
includes a systematic project evaluation conducted by the Instructional Technology faculty.
Project participants will be provided with numerous opportunities to reflect on the use of this
new technology and will share those uses with the campus community at a showcase in April,
2012. Finally, all participants have the opportunity to engage in research and scholarship related
to the use of the iPads within their own areas of interest.

Specific goals for the iPad project have been informed by the literature of the profession and
include:

Scholarship of Discovery
The iPad project will (a) enhance ongoing research initiatives, (b) promote engagement in
scholarship using a wide range of theoretical perspectives and research methodologies to explore
the use of mobile technologies for teaching and learning, (c) encourage participants to
disseminate the findings from the research studies to contribute to the literature in multiple
educational domains, and (d) stimulate the scholastic climate of the College of Education.

Scholarship of Integration:
Participation in the project will facilitate (a) connections being made within and across
educational disciplines, (b) the possible convergence of research initiatives, and (c) deepen
individuals’ understandings of how their research is part of a broader intellectual pattern and
crosscuts traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Scholarship of Application
The hands-on, collaborative nature of the iPad project takes place within the context of an
increasingly global and digital society. The project will result in (a) enhanced engagement within
the university community and beyond (e.g., P-12 schools, intervention centers, the field of
education etc.), where research and pedagogical innovations inform practices of teaching and
learning, and (b) faculty and administrators who are able to model lifelong learning and
demonstrate leadership in the exploration of innovative practices for teaching, learning, and
personal productivity.
Scholarship of Teaching
Through modeling of the use mobile technologies, the project will lead to (a) enhanced teaching
based on the increased use of digital technologies which promote and support innovative and
creative thinking, (b) more effective use of a wide range of digital information resources to
support teaching, learning and scholarship, (c) improved candidate engagement and content
learning (content will vary depending on the course), and (d) candidates with the knowledge,
skills and dispositions to incorporate innovative pedagogical strategies and technological
innovations into their own practice.

Informing documents

Boyer, E. (1997). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professorate. San Francisco:

Jossey-Bass.

Hansen, K. (undated). Ernest Boyer’s Model of Scholarship: An Overview. Retrieved from

http://academic.csupomona.edu/ccsl/Presentations/ernestboyer.ppt.

International Society for Technology in Education (2008). NETS for Teachers 2008. Retrieved
from http://www.iste.org/standards/nets-for-teachers/nets-for-teachers-2008.aspx.

Nibert, M. (undated). 2.5.1 Boyer’s Model of Scholarship. Retrieved from

http://www.pcrest.com/PC/FGB/test/2_5_1.htm