Mobile App Development in Higher Ed

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James Langford Ph.D. Chad Q. Martin @chadQmartin

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m.acu.edu mobile site mobile app for group discussions What we did + What we learned

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• Masters I, Liberal Arts • 800 Faculty Staff • 5,000 Students • Residential

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Mobile Learning Initiative • www.acu.edu/connected • Fall 2008 iPhones & iPod Touches to all freshmen • Fall 2010 all full-time undergraduates with devices

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Faculty Involvement 160 Mobile Learning Explorers 50% Faculty participation in 1st year Upload syllabus Keep Course Calendar with Assignments Attend two training sessions 5 Mobile Learning Fellows Focus on Research

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What do you need when you’re out & about?

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Existing Tools

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m.acu.edu (before)

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Designing m.acu.edu

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It started with: • 10 sketches • 30 Photoshop Docs • 75+ Visual Comps • 100+ icons • hundreds of emails • lots of trial and error

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before + after

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Context

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Categorize (sitewide content)

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ACU Mobile, My Mobile, Pocket Guide

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Prioritize (individual page content)

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Adding Features + Functions

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Progression

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m.acu.edu What We Learned

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Scrum A cross-functional team with well- deﬁned roles plans and creates potentially-releasable versions of a product every few weeks with continual feedback and reﬁnement.

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Explaining SCRUM http://www.implementingscrum.com/2009/05/28/the-chicken-and-pig-story-now-in-tagalog/

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Product Owner • Describes requirements as stories • Decides priorities of stories

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Scrum Team • Organizes themselves • Decides complexity of stories • Breaks stories into tasks • Does work • Presents to product owner

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Scrum Master • Supports scrum team • Organizes sprints • Removes impediments • Charts progress • Presides over daily scrum, planning sessions

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Scrum Process • Two-week (in our case) “sprints” • Sprint planning • Presentation • Backlog grooming, release planning • Stories and tasks moved across scrum board

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FaceTime/ HeadsUp presentation

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When social media experts get together http://twitpic.com/z381u by @nanpalmero

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Technology should empower interaction,

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not distract from it.

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GPS Enter address then focus on the road

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Time in class is limited and precious 92% 8% 168 13 Class Time Week

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Can technology enhance these 13 hours without being the focus?

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ACU’s 21st Century Vision “ACU will deliver a unique, Christ-centered experience that draws students into community.”

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Classes = Mini-Communities

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Discussion Groups = Micro- Communities

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• Set-up time • Weak prompts •Group Dynamics Problems with small groups

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Facilitating small group creation and direction

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Reclaiming Classroom Setup Teaching & Discussion W rapup With FaceTime Teaching & Discussion Wrapup Traditional Small Group Setup Setup

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Overhead Reduce admin time Learning Increase discussion quality

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Create Groups Assign Groups Send Prompts Discussion Reporting Evaluate Persist How it Works

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Create Create Groups Assign Groups Send Prompts Discussion Reporting Evaluate Persist

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• Time consuming or convenience-based methods • Criteria-based sorting difﬁcult Manual Sorting Smart Sorting • Simple setup & lots of control • Quickly creates groups, randomly or based on criteria

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Create & Sort Groups by: • Age • Major • GPA • Classiﬁcation • Meyers Briggs • Teacher input • Student input • Random

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Assign Create Groups Assign Groups Send Prompts Discussion Reporting Evaluate Persist

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1 You are in group: You are in group: You are in group: 2 3

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Prompt & Discuss Create Groups Assign Groups Send Prompts Discussion Reporting Evaluate Persist

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You are the White Hat You are the Green Hat You are the Yellow Hat TOPIC: Healthcare Reform TOPIC: Healthcare Reform TOPIC: Healthcare Reform Data-Only Unemotional Facts & Statistics Creativity Outside the box Keep things moving Positivity Excitement Emotional Discussion: Six Thinking Hats

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Focus on the Strengths Focus on the Weaknesses Focus on the Threats TOPIC: Free Speech TOPIC: Free Speech TOPIC: Free Speech Discussion Prompt

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Mom Planning a surprise birthday party for your daughter tonight TOPIC: Improv TOPIC: Improv TOPIC: Improv Custom Prompt Daughter You really, really, really want to go out with friends tonight Dad You just got home from a trip and want to go out to dinner with your wife

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Reporting Create Groups Assign Groups Send Prompts Discussion Reporting Evaluate Persist

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Designated Reporter: John Hailey Megan Smith Beth Neilson Reggie Biggs Amy Lee Be ready to summarize your discussion for the class at 9:40

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Evaluate Create Groups Assign Groups Send Prompts Discussion Reporting Evaluate Persist

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Overall Ratings Topic Group Individual Ratings John Hailey Megan Smith Beth Neilson

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Persist Create Groups Assign Groups Send Prompts Discussion Reporting Evaluate Persist

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Share My Contact Info John Hailey Megan Smith Beth Neilson Reggie Biggs Dr. Smith

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Beneﬁts

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Student Beneﬁts • Maximized in-class time • Diversiﬁed interactions • Increased participation levels • New approaches to problem solving

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Instructor Beneﬁts • Simpliﬁed group setup & management • Focused, meaningful discussions • Feedback on discussions & participants • People are the focus (not technology)

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Not Just for Small Groups

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Classtime is

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Pilot Project Demo

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Wizard vs. Modular

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