Qr Codes Ideas Factory 09

The QR Codes Ideas Factory Tour What potential does a QR code offer as a learning technology?

January-February 2009

Andy Ramsden

Head of e-Learning

University of Bathhttp://go.bath.ac.uk/andyramsden

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aims & your role

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• Help to kick start the design, development and implementation of activities which involve some use of QR Codes

• Collect your ideas, and disseminate these through the other partner institutions taking part in this project. Including HE (MMU, UEA, UoG, SU, UoL, UoB), and FE (Glou College, Cirencester).

Background

1. Background

The JISC Project: Objectives

A measure of success

Exploring educational uses of QR codes

Critical evaluation

Developing a community of practice

Get a number of institutions to discuss and share experiences

Implementing practical uses

Case Studies, overall report and SWOT (style) analysis.

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Research question: what potential does a QR code offer as a learning technology?

Who has accessed a QR code?

• Why did you do it?• How did you do it?• What happened?

Getting started with QR Codes

We need some answers to

• What is a QR Code?• How would you access them?• How would you create one?

• Handout: An introduction to QR Codes:• A getting started guide for academics: http://www.bath.ac.uk/opus

Some answers …

A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes.

Common tasks that can be achieved using a qr code, include,

• Link to web site• Send an sms to a phone• Transfer a phone number• Provide more textwww.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/read/qr_codes.htm

• How would you access them? – camera phone & a QR reader• How would you create one? – online service, http://www.bath.ac.uk/barcodes

You do … create on

Aim is to add a QR Code to a Powerpoint / Word document

The QR Code can be either a url/text/sms or phone number

Create at: http://qrcode.kaywa.com

Save image, and insert into Powerpoint / Word document

• Handout: An introduction to QR Codes:• A getting started guide for academics: http://www.bath.ac.uk/opus

How do you get the readers?

i-nigma (not the best, but …)

On phone

1. www.i-nigma.mobi

2. 07781 489340

Developments @ the University of Bath

2. Developments @ Bath

Emerging use at the University of Bath

QR Codes only QR Codes with other tools

e-Admin

e-Learning

Sign up for SMS news alerts using QR codes

Classroom formative feedback

Subscription to a rss news feed

Within library catalogue

Inclusion within web pages

JIT content in lectures

Appended to Moodle print outs

Handbooks linking to online resources

Are students aware of QR Codes?

• Do you know what a QR Code is?

– Yes: 13.8% – with 95% confidence interval, then 12.34% - 15.26% of total

student population are aware of QR codes.

Have they accessed a QR Code?

• Have you accessed a QR Code?

– Yes: 2.2% – with 95% confidence interval, then 1.58% - 2.82% of total

student population have accessed a QR code.

• The most common action was

– Web site – 33 responses– Read more text – 28 responses– Phone a number – 19 responses– Send a pre-written SMS – 12 responses?

Can they access them?

QR Code Readers: Kaywa, Quickmark, i-Nigma & SnapMaze

Working up your ideas

3. Working up your ideas

What springs to mind?

How might you use QR Codes?

Show, Tell, and Discuss

Role Play: Issues & Anxieties

What can you foresee as a barrier to the use of QR Codes?

Re-working your ideas

Where next?

4. Where next

Where next?

Local scene

National scene

• http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/qrcodes• Emerging Ning Community

thank you

Andy Ramsden

a.ramsden@bath.ac.uk

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