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MobileU: Enhancing Student Learning Through Mobile Technology

Wake Forest University's MobileU program offers academic applications for students, including ClassInHand for polling and feedback, DataInHand for data collection, and resources for chemistry participants. The program provides hardware such as Siemens SX66 and Audiovox SV6600 with carriers Cingular and Sprint. Logistics, training, and support are provided to ensure student success. Assessment includes feedback, surveys, interviews, and data collection on app usage. Visit http://mobileu.wfu.edu for tech guides and software. Experience the future of education with MobileU!

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MobileU: Enhancing Student Learning Through Mobile Technology

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  1. MobileUSmartPhones at Wake Forest University Anne Bishop Director of Research & Development Information Systems anne@wfu.edu http://mobileu.wfu.edu

  2. WFU Academic Applications ClassInHand Polling, feedback, and PowerPoint control from instructor’s PocketPC http://classinhand.wfu.edu DataInHand: Data collection software http://datainhand.wfu.edu

  3. MobileU Carriers: Cingular and Sprint Student participants: Chemistry 111: 45 (all Cingular) Technology Quarters: 11 At Large: 47 Total Cingular participants: 65 Total Sprint participants: 32

  4. Hardware (MobiDeac) Cingular: Siemens SX66 with wifi Sprint: Audiovox SV6600 with camera. Provided students wifi SD card

  5. Cellular Plans Chemistry: All students were provided loaner Mobi with Cingular data plan. Option to purchase voice plan or move their own SIM card into Mobi. Tech Quarters: Students provided loaner Mobi with data and voice plans. At Large: Students purchased Mobi. Sprint provided temporary data and voice plan; Cingular students used their own SIM or purchased voice/data.

  6. Logistics • R&D Team built a software load for Mobi • Software load put onto all devices before distribution by R&D staff • Pre-populated some Favorites in Pocket IE (chemistry practice exercises…) • Pre-populated contact list with selected WFU phone numbers (campus police, IS Help Desk…) • Included alternate screen backgrounds and WFU ring tones • Application software

  7. Resources for participants • Basic training at distribution (by cohort groups) • Monthly evening sessions by carrier to introduce new software, troubleshoot, etc • http://mobileu.wfu.edu: Tech guide, additional software to download, general information • Listserv • Blog managed by R&D; how-tos, explanations, fun software to try

  8. Assessment • Feedback during monthly meetings • Survey at end of semester • Interviews with selected students • Interview with chemistry professor • Data collected by an application on Mobi that logged which applications were being used

  9. Software Demo

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