{"id":13922,"date":"2011-01-20T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=13922"},"modified":"2011-01-20T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T14:55:31","slug":"high-speed-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/20\/high-speed-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"High Speed Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/campustechnology.com\/Articles\/2011\/01\/19\/High-Speed-Ahead.aspx?Page=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>High Speed Ahead<\/strong>&#8211;<\/a>&#8211; from CampusTechnology.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpt re: expanding WiFi coverage<\/strong> :<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;WiFi is local;  that&#8217;s the trouble with it,&#8221; said McCartney. &#8220;With the 4G network,  users will have wireless coverage both indoors and while outside walking  around between the buildings. That&#8217;s a whole lot of coverage that we  didn&#8217;t have before.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Besides the clear advantages of faster, more reliable Internet  access, the 4G service helps Purdue&#8217;s faculty and staff deliver and use  bandwidth-intensive applications and solutions to students in a more  seamless fashion.<\/span><\/strong> Known for developing proprietary mobile technologies  to enhance traditional college classroom experiences, the school&#8217;s  latest developments include the Facebook academic application <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itap.purdue.edu\/studio\/mixable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixable<\/a> and a student discussion tool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itap.purdue.edu\/studio\/hotseat\/\" target=\"_blank\">HotSeat<\/a>, which allows students to interact with their classmates and faculty using Twitter and text messages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Another new application that was implemented in 2010 finds students<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> making instructional use of video<\/span><\/strong> in the institution&#8217;s forensics  classes, among others. The program and the material produced with it are  bandwidth-intensive and difficult to manipulate on a traditional WiFi  network. The new 4G access will help fill that gap. &#8220;To use this  application solution, you have to be able to take video, deliver it and  [watch] it,&#8221; said McCartney. &#8220;You can\u2019t do that on 3G.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">With Purdue&#8217;s 4G tower activated since early-December, <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">staff and  students are already developing new applications that will have a  &#8220;measurable and material impact on learning,&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> said McCartney, who added  he expects more colleges to jump on the 4G bandwagon as the successful  implementations are documented. &#8220;As a leading university, we have to  keep up with the plumbing around here, and make sure that all of our  services work as expected, and as advertised.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Speed Ahead&#8211;&#8211; from CampusTechnology.com Excerpt re: expanding WiFi coverage : &#8220;WiFi is local; that&#8217;s the trouble with it,&#8221; said McCartney. &#8220;With the 4G network, users will have wireless coverage both indoors and while outside walking around between the buildings. That&#8217;s a whole lot of coverage that we didn&#8217;t have before.&#8221; Besides the clear advantages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,245,50,48,367],"tags":[566,575,67,594,592,747,589],"class_list":["post-13922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-mobile-learning","category-mobile-technologies","category-teaching-learning","category-telecommunications","category-vendors","tag-higher-education","tag-mobile-learning","tag-mobile-technology","tag-teaching-learning","tag-telecommunications","tag-vendors","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13927,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions\/13927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}