How the iPhone Could Reboot Education | Gadget Lab. How do you educate a generation of students eternally distracted by the internet, cellphones and video games? Easy. You enable them by handing out free iPhones — and then integrating the gadget into your curriculum. That’s the idea Abilene Christian University has to refresh classroom learning. Located in Texas, the private university just finished its first year of a pilot program, in which 1,000 freshman students had the choice between a free iPhone or an iPod Touch. The initiative’s goal was to explore how the always-connected iPhone might revolutionize the classroom experience with a dash of digital interactivity.
Think web apps to turn in homework, look up campus maps, watch lecture podcasts and check class schedules and grades. The verdict? “It’s kind of the TiVoing of education,” Rankin said in a phone interview. The traditional classroom, where an instructor assigns a textbook, is heading toward obsolescence. “About five years ago my students stopped taking notes,” Rankin said. Bibliography - How the iPhone Could Reboot Education. iPad Admissions Review Product. — Matchbox — Matchbox is your virtual base camp that gives you visibility into the entire admissions process.
From here you can dynamically configure the look and feel of Matchbox for every kind of role in your process – readers, interviewers, staff, alumni, faculty, or any others that you define. Let Matchbox be the conductor in your admissions orchestra. Analytics / Dashboard See how your admissions process is unfolding in real-time. Plug it into anything Matchbox understands that by being the best-in-breed, we don’t do everything (you still need to do your own laundry) and that you may want to connect Matchbox with your existing systems.
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The Own Your Own Future app is available for iPhone and Android—and is completely free to use. Created as a companion to Texas GEAR UP’s college-readiness website for middle-school and high-school students, ownyourownfuture.com, the app offers up a plethora of helpful resources, including a college-prep checklist, videos, quizzes, college profiles, month-by-month topics of focus for seniors, and much more. There are even opportunities for students to earn points by checking in at campus tours, admissions offices and other college-related events. (Because really, who doesn’t love earning points?) Today college readiness, tomorrow…? Bibliography - College Readiness Gets the App Treatment. New App to Help Students Learn the Vocabulary to Be College and Career Ready « McGraw-Hill's College and Career Readiness. Source: One of the many building blocks for academic success is vocabulary.
Student achievement in almost every field requires the ability to comprehend and use words. Those who struggle with vocabulary will struggle in school! Here to help is a new and clever vocabulary-building tool, McGraw-Hill’s 50 Words to Know app for the iPad and iPod Touch. Aimed at students in grades 9–12, this easy-to-use app includes several features and activities that allow users to grow their vocabulary and focus their efforts on the specific words with which they may need assistance. The student begins by selecting his or her grade level. The “View All Words” option presents the user with a glossary-style list of words with their definitions. Not every student needs help with exactly the same words! To find out more, visit: Bibliography - 50 Words to Know App. Mobile Learning Platform: a case study of introducing m-learning in Tertiary Education | Nana Kofi Annan.
Education delivery has come a long way and is advancingfrom a specific location context to ubiquitous space, which isteaching and learning anywhere, anytime with any device.This is a new paradigm in education which has received theattention of researchers over the past few years with severalpilot projects being conducted across the globe. “Anywhere” is a situation which is not limited to a specificlocation or venue. “Anytime” can be explained as an undecided time or wherever seems convenient or appropriate. „Any Device‟‟ in this context refers to all types of computingdevices which have the capabilities for teaching and learning.These devices include smart phones, mobile phones, PDAs,tablets, palmtop, notebooks, laptops and desktop computers.The integration of anywhere, anytime, any device with ICT,creates a Mobile Learning Platform (MLP) which offersnumerous opportunities for education delivery in the 21 st century.
Attaining a “Virtual Omnipresence Status” (VOS) which. How to build a university mobile application: best practice and insight | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. Nicholas Oliver is creative technical director at communications agency TheBlueHive and formerly creative technology and project manager at Precedent Communications, @nicoliver86 Don't get bogged down in the large strategy development surrounding digital - consider short term solutions and wins too During my time at Precedent, we noticed that universities are shifting away from creating recruitment apps, and are looking more at developing applications that benefit existing students.
These serve a dual purpose. As well as improving the student experience they also enable prospective students to see what really happens at the university and feel a part of student life before they enrol. As mobile is relatively new universities seem to be struggling to find quick solutions while they develop their wider digital strategy. One short term solution is the creation of mobile optimised templates for their existing website; this is a quick win at a relatively low cost. @DraycottMC Resources: Bibliography - Using iPads to Stay Competitive in Recruiting. 5 Ways Higher Education Is Leveraging Mobile Tech. Jeff Kirchick is Director of Universities at SCVNGR, the popular mobile game about going places, doing challenges and earning points. He presents regularly about the future of mobile and location-based services in education. You can follow Jeff on Twitter @JeffreyKirchick or e-mail him at jeff@scvngr.com. Mobile technology is on the minds of higher education professionals more than ever before.
At the recent HighEdWeb conference in Austin, the itinerary included several ways schools can use social media, blogs and mobile technologies to better captivate its student body. And last week, hundreds of orientation professionals gathered in New Orleans for the National Orientation Directors Association annual conference, where they discussed how to engage with prospective students in modern and relevant ways — including mobile — to welcome the next freshman class. It’s no mystery why: The latest numbers show 40% of teens plan on buying an iPhone within the next three months. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Bibliography - 5 Ways Higher Education Is Leveraging Mobile Tech. College admissions officials turn to iPad to streamline applications. Two major universities sign on with software company run by admissions experts By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor Read more by Denny Carter December 20th, 2011 The ratio of applicants to enrollments has dropped every year since 2003. What once took a week to collect, organize, and collate has been reduced to a few clicks on an Apple iPad in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s admissions office. Matchbox, a startup company launched by former and current college admissions officials, announced Dec. 19 that MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management are among the first schools to use an Apple iPad application that stores reams of student information usually kept on paper in filing cabinets.
Using the cloud-based Matchbox iPad app could save admissions offices up to 75 percent of the time it takes to collect, review, and process student application forms, which are often more than 30 pages. Bibliography - College Admissions Officials Turn to iPad to Streamline Applications. College Professors Create Mobile Apps for Students. As smartphones and tablet devices are incorporated into college classrooms around the country, many students and educators have turned to mobile apps to help supplement their daily academic lives. While the education market has been flooded with mobile apps created by textbook companies and technology firms, some professors are making their own custom apps to engage students in specific courses.
[Discover five apps students should use this year.] For Anant Sundaram, a professor at Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business, who collaborated with Aswath Damodaran, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, the motivation for creating a mobile app for business students arose when they considered writing a textbook. "We looked at the textbook landscape and said, 'Who needs another textbook about valuation? '" Sundaram says. "In this day and age, one of my biggest disappointments is how textbook companies have been slow to adjust to changes in the industry. " Bibliography - College Professors Create Mobile Apps.