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EDUCAUSE Review
Volume 46, Number 2 | March/April 2011

Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives

 

Features

On teaching
Mobile Literacy
David Parry
“The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these technologies effectively.”
David McCarthy
“The current optimal e-reading solution for higher education is a robust laptop home base with an ecosystem that interacts with tablets and e-readers for mobile consumption.”
On iPads
Why Mobile?
Mary Ann Gawelek, Mary Spataro, and Phil Komarny
“With their students, faculty have become co-learners and pioneers in the classroom. With no models to work from, they had to explore, practice, and discover the iPad’s potential for expanding learning.”
Susan T. Evans
“Mobile is the future for content delivery. Colleges and universities need to establish a strategy now and make the decisions necessary to take advantage of this communication opportunity.”
Jim Davis and Rosemary A. Rocchio
“This device-agnostic framework and approach has huge practical advantages in that we can reach the vast majority of our mobile community regardless of what device they are using and we can readily accommodate ever-changing devices.”
“The best I can hope to do is keep an eye on the high level industry trends and directions, and then once we’ve identified those trends, ride them as best we can to where we think they’ll take the market.”

Designing for the future web — from SmashingMagazine.com by James Gardner

 

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Addendum on 4/5/11:
A free, weeklong online experience consisting of online activities, resources, web seminars, and discussions on mobile computing.

Join us April 25–29 for a focused learning opportunity on one of the top IT issues in higher education today—mobile computing.

Perhaps no area of higher education IT is evolving more rapidly. Colleges and universities are making important decisions about mobile computing and how it can be incorporated into effective technology programs—today and tomorrow.

In an effort to bring the community together on this topic, EDUCAUSE will convene a Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint. This experience will allow you to engage in activities and discussions on the many ways mobile technologies are undeniably altering higher education.

How to Participate

Mark your calendar to visit this website throughout the week. The 5-Day Sprint will include synchronous and asynchronous activities.

The sprint is a build-your-own experience—you choose which activities to participate in, based on your interests and needs. No registration is required, except for the free daily EDUCAUSE Live! web seminars, where virtual seating is limited; sign up today.

What to Expect During the Week

Join us each day to explore solutions to common challenges and share experiences and ideas through articles, podcasts, web seminars, and online discussions. Each day will be dedicated to a specific theme related to mobile computing.

Monday, April 25: The Future of Mobile Computing

Hear how the community is framing and contextualizing the depth and breadth of what mobile computing means on campus, setting the stage for a week of rich and dynamic discussion on this issue.

Tuesday, April 26: Teaching and Learning

Join us as we discuss the learning that is—or could be—enabled by mobile technology.

Wednesday, April 27: Mobile Enterprise Integration

Engage in the conversation about how to plan for a fully integrated mobile experience for faculty, staff, and students.

Thursday, April 28: Security, Privacy, and Policy

Bring your experiences and ideas as we examine the current state of mobile security, anticipate what’s coming, and explore effective practices.

Friday, April 29: Mobile Infrastructure

Explore the wide range of hardware, software, and network infrastructure components necessary to make mobile computing an effective addition to campus services.

Augmented Learning — from Kirsten Winkler at bigthink.com
Excerpt:

A technology that keeps me excited for a while now is augmented reality in combination with QR codes and geo tagging. One start-up that caught my attention early on was StickBits.

From DSC:
I’m thinking of a related application here — it involves Geology courses. That is, what if the rocks or other types of materials (that students were trying to learn about) were assigned their own QR codes? Then the students could walk around the room, scan in the QR codes, and the relevant information about that rock/material would appear on their device.


There’s an app for that class at Va. universities — from timesdispatch.com by Karin Kapsidelis

VCU App

VCU and other universities are exploring the uses of
smartphones and mobile applications in and outside classrooms.

 

With the help of his smartphone, D. Kirk Richardson taught a class last summer on Edgar Allan Poe’s last hours in Richmond. The walking tour took on a different dimension for his Virginia Commonwealth University students when he augmented his lesson with vintage images from the poet’s day. On his iPhone, they could see Poe haunts that no longer exist and even a menu from a restaurant where he dined during his last 30 hours here in 1849. For Richardson, who teaches focused inquiry classes at VCU’s University College, it was a way of adding context to Poe’s life and “moving history out of books.” He has since adapted that mobile lesson plan to a mytourguide.com application and is showing his students this semester how to use the app to create their own walking tours. Later this month, the class will set out to digitally explore the Civil War prison camp on Belle Isle, famous hotels and the last days of Jefferson Davis.

 

http://mytourguide.com/

Originally saw this at
Ray Schroeder’s Online Learning Update blog

Computer science programs use mobile apps to make coursework relevant — from The Washington Post by Jenna Johnson

 

Computer science courses use mobile apps to make coursework relevant — from The Washington Post

The Virginia Tech student’s concern about buses, Tilevich said, offered a chance to show students that coding can be relevant. By the end of the semester, the advanced software engineering class had partnered with the city transit system to obtain data from Global Positioning System devices on dozens of city buses. An algorithm soon was predicting arrival times and beaming the information to a prototype mobile application.

“Sometimes as faculty members, we have to step back. We have to let them run wild,” said Tilevich, a former professional clarinet player who blogs about his teaching experiments.

Originally saw this at GetIdeas.org

 

Apple iPad 2 ‘sold out’ — from telegraph.co.uk
Analysts at Piper Jaffray and Deutsche Bank claim the Apple iPad 2 is now totally sold out after its Friday launch, with 70% sold to new purchasers

iPad 2 Sold Out, 70% Went to New Buyers — from Mashable.com by Stan Schroeder

Also see:
Tablet devices: iPad takes over as the lecture hall aid of choice — from ft.com by Tim Bradshaw

Generations and their gadgets -- from PewInternet.org

Augmented reality: A travel essential — from wired.co.uk by David Rowan

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It’s 2011, and you’re standing by the Brandenburg Gate in Germany’s capital examining the cracks and graffitied slogans of the vast and intimidating Berlin Wall. Sure, the physical wall fell back in 1989 — but now it’s back to add context to your journey, thanks to creative use of smartphone technology. Point your iPhone or your Android phone towards the wall’s original location, and superimposed on the phone’s camera image is an intricate 3D representation of the wall where it originally stood. City discovery just became augmented.

Until recently, “augmented reality” was an awkward and generally disappointing technology that involved downloading special software, holding strange symbols up to computer webcams, and waiting with fingers crossed for your movements to yield some sort of interactive movement on the screen. But the latest GPS-enabled, high-resolution-camera smartphones have given “AR” (as it’s known) a new and often very engaging life. So if you download a free app from a Dutch company called Layar, you can select layers of real-world information that will be displayed on your phone’s screen according to your location. When I travel, I now use these layers to learn the history of Rome or Red Square, or simply which way to walk to the nearest subway station. Just point your camera and follow the virtual signs.

Report: By 2015, Mobile Internet Usage Will Increase by Factor of 26

MindTap from Cengage

 

 

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