Interactive lectures with Moodle and students’ devices: BYOD at Paris Descartes University

Abstract

ICT for Education has the potential to enhance and support learning. It is now possible to create engaging environments for learning and teaching and especially supporting interactive lectures.

To achieve this goal one strategy is to implement BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) programs into the learning process. The acronym BYOD refers to “[…] technology models where students bring a personally owned device to [university] for the purpose of learning.” (Alberta Education, 2012).

This definition confirms that using BYOD can indeed be an innovative way to create and animate interactive lectures.

This paper will present the learning activities based on the Moodle LMS (http://moodle2.parisdescartes.fr/) that were carried out in different lectures on a BYOD mode. It will also show how this model can improve and enhance learning and impact students’ motivation.