ACU – Mobile Learning and the Connected Campus

Title: ACU – Mobile Learning and the Connected Campus
William Rankin, George Saltsman, Kyle Dickson
17 September 2008 at 1:00 P.M. (Eastern)
Mode: Elluminate Live!
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Recording: http://elluminate.nait.ca/play_recording.html?recordingId=1220620904512_1221666371609

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ABSTRACT
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Ninety-seven percent of students enter college with cell phones, yet few universities leverage this ubiquity for teaching and university life. Colleges have two choices: continue to treat mobile devices as an annoyance, or embrace them by leveraging their mobile learning capabilities. ACU's expanded view connects academic, social, and infrastructural m-learning applications. This presentation will explore the goals and aspirations of ACU's Mobile Learning Initiative as well as reflect on the early observations and successes, both in and out of the classroom, of delivering 1,200 iPhones and iPod touches to incoming Freshmen, Faculty, and Staff.

Please view this short video which was their vision one year ago; on 17 September, they will let us know how well their vision materialized as of the current intake of new students. - http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/index.html