spm9613: tu delft goes mobile

11-04-2023

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

TU Delft goes Mobile

Ir. W.F. van Valkenburg

2TU Delft goes Mobile

Who am I?

• e-learning consultant for the Shared Service Centre ICT of Delft University of Technology

• Projects I’m working on:• Blackboard (project leader)• Social Software (weblogs, wikis, twitter)• OpenCourseWare• TU Delft Mobile• TU Delft Multimedia

• Blog on www.e-learn.nl • Twitter on twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg


Agenda

• The development of mobile phones• Results TU Delft Mobile Survey• What is TU Delft doing?• Future developments• Questions


Predictions• Morgan Stanley – The Mobile Internet Report

http://www.morganstanley.com/

• “Mobile internet market will be twice the size of desktop internet”

• CBS - onderzoek ICT-gebruik huishoudens en personen, 2009http://www.cbs.nl/

• In 2009 3 out of 10 persons said they used the internet on their mobile phone in the 3 months prior to the survey

http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html

http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/bedrijven/publicaties/artikelen/archief/2009/2009-068-pb.htm


Tech Cycles Tend to last 10 years


New Computing Cycle Characteristics


Adoption is going faster


5 trends merge together

• 3G (with unlimited data subscription)• Be online any place, any where any time

• Social Networking• Users seek contact and communicate

• Video• Youtube has a big share in mobile data traffic

• VoIP• Users want to chat via voice, text en video

• Impressive Mobile Devices• iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy


Apple iPhone/iTouch


TU Delft Mobile Survey


Availability of the survey

• The survey was online on the homepage of Blackboard.tudelft.nl from Dec 4 until Dec 10.

• The survey had 11 questions and a field for comments

• Number of submission: 2351.


Respondents


Type of mobile phone


Which brand of mobile phone


Platform of the smart phones


Providers


Data subscription


Features of the mobile phone


Which features do you use


Web Access


Which services should TUD provide


Summary• More than 60% of our students use a smart phone.• Apple iPhone is the most popular smart phone.• T-Mobile is the most used provider.• More than 80% of the smart phone users have a data

subscription.• Almost 80% of the smart phone users use mobile

web access daily.• Blackboard is the most wanted TU-service for mobile

access.


Results from other universities• Radboud University Nijmegen

• 50% of the students have a smart phone• More than 80% of the smart phone users have a data

subscription.• More than 85% of the smart phone users use the mobile web

daily.

• University of Edinburgh• 49% of the students have a smart phone• 39% have a contract that gives unlimited access to internet.• An average of 50% of students access Email and Facebook

through their mobiles several times a day.http://www.slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg/radboud-mobile-survey-resultshttp://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2010/03/mobile-use-at-edinburgh.html


Blackboard on your mobile phone

• Browser


What does Delft do?• Infrastructure

• Improve the wifi network

• Blackboard Mobile Central• iPhone app• BlackBerry app• Mobile website m.tudelft.nl• Android

• Blackboard Mobile Learn• Coming soon

• iTunesU


Blackboard Mobile Central


Blackboard Mobile Central – How it works (1)

University services

Mobile Central Cloud

Users

cache

authentication


Blackboard Mobile Central – How it works (2)

• Connections based on xml:

• News via rss-feeds

• Other via web services


Blackboard Mobile Learn

http://blackboard.com/resources/mobile/iPad_ml_demo.mp4


TU Delft on iTunesU

• TU Delft on iTunesU since February 2010.

• First university in the Netherlands

• Started with 200 video’s and now 276


Future developments

• New Software: iOS4.x, Android, Windows 7, webOS

• New Hardware: iPhone 4, Samsung, etc.

• New Services: you?


Concluding remarks

• Students are early adopters with mobile technology

• 60% already has a smart phone

• Students use internet on their phone very frequently


Questions?

Presentation is onblackboard and www.slideshare.com/wfvanvalkenburg

Ir. W.F. van [email protected]/wfvanvalkenburg

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