This session will have two elements: the first will look at how the development of an app supported a process of organisational change. In the second part, we'll explore the role of ICT within wider education policy shifts and look at some of challenges that face us as we use technology to share education.
Learning Plus UK launched its first 'app' in the summer of 2011. The move to supply information on handhelds and mobiles is part of a broader approach to respond to broader changes in the educational landscape. The charity has a history of providing high quality robust data to schools and colleges, the app represented a first step to giving information direct to young people.
As a not for profit, the shift to providing info to young people using apps marks a signficant change to the culture of the organisation and to our wider relationships with the education sector. Here, we want to explore why we decided to move into the world of apps - what it meant for us as an education organisation, how and why we did it and what it means for the broader world of education. The session launchpad for a wider discussion about e(ducation) apps.
