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MOBILE COMPUTING: WEB APPS AND MOODLE
Presentation to the Moodle Moot
May 5, 2011
Bill Fricker
MOBILE COMPUTING: WEB APPS AND MOODLE - CONCLUSIONS
Web Apps over Native Apps Moodle
1. Clearly able to be used on mobile devices; the question now is how well and how soon
2. User demand pressures may be overwhelming
Now, let’s see if I can make the case for these conclusions
ONE YEAR AGO, AU CONTRACTED BONNE JOURNEE STRATEGIES TO …
• Interviewed – More than 50 AU employees– Contacts at other
educational institutions– Contacts with vendors
• Conducted a wide range literature search
• Assigned: – April 28, 2010
• Report submitted: – Aug 6, 2010
– Thanks to AU for their permission to share information today
Identify strategic opportunities that may be present with respect to AU’s employment of mobile computing
INTRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCAN
Introduction Mobile Market
Momentum Mobile Uses Environmental Scan
Internal – AU Early mobile
projects Related KIP projects Community
Adjustment Fund Academic
Environmental Scan Survey of published
literature Text Book
Publishers’ Support Reports from
Forester Research, Inc
2010 Horizon Report
Burton Group Abilene Christian
University140 + citations and links
AU MEDIA ON MOBILE DISPLAYS
Key developments HTML5 CSS JavaScript XML SMS
Content Management System Alfresco OROS - Student Information
Services AU Library – Mobile State
This report section was developed by Kieron Quigley, Drive Train Software, Inc, who is now the Global Solutions Manager of Cisco Telepresence Group
AU MEDIA ON MOBILE DISPLAYS
• Mobile Display Status– In summary, “as is”
for now, but enrichments pending
– mobileOKchecker tool– Adobe Flash
• Moodle– Some functionality,
and promising developments
– Moodle4iPhone project
– mpage
MEDIA ON MOBILE DISPLAYSMAY 2011 UPDATE HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript continue to increase
penetration and adoption in the marketplace. HTML5 web "applications" continue to surprise pundits in their ability to provide a rich, desktop-class application on mobile devices
Continual growth in the smartphone market is apparent. Recently, IDC reported that in 2011, smartphone sales will grow almost 50% as consumers replace traditional 'feature' phones -that's a huge number (see http://mashable.com/2011/03/29/idc-smartphone-market-growth/)
Source – K. Quigley Continued
MEDIA ON MOBILE DISPLAYSMAY 2011 UPDATE, CONTINUED
mobile app downloads – 2010 ―10.9 billion, 2014 ―76.9 billion
Web Based Apps are still considered the easiest way to maximum reach, and lowest app TCO mobile devices need good browsers... iOS (iPhone,
iPad, etc) improve JavaScript execution speed Android improved its rendering capability BlackBerry moved to WebKit (like iOS and Android) recently, Microsoft Windows Phone announced their
new IE Mobile 9 browser will be available in the second half of 2011
Source – K. Quigley Continued
MEDIA ON MOBILE DISPLAYSMAY 2011 UPDATE, CONTINUED
o Mobile adoption is accelerating, and the mechanisms of information delivery are necessarily moving to mobile friendly modalities more and more (i.e. texting, alerts, multimedia messaging (MMS), etc.
o Video Conferencing is now mainstream on mobile devices -for example, Apple Facetime on iPad2 and iPhone4 is amazing
o Source – K. Quigley
NATIVE APPS VS WEB APPS Native app
1. Rich use of select device features
2. Require one for each of
Apple Android Blackberry webOS
3. Engraved in stone and time trapped
Web app1. Not-yet-rich use of all
device features; exciting and imminent developments
2. One app to fit all platforms
3. Fluid for developments and currency
IT (MOODLE) CONTEXT
Computing has progressed …
From keypunch to DOS
From DOS to GUIFrom GUI to Mobile
Each progression level has empowered new people to become successful users. And each time, fewer technical demands are requisite to such successful usage.
… more drivers and fewer mechanics!
WHO YOU GONNA CALL? Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group; www.w3.org Mobile Computing.com; www.mobilecomputing.com Internet and Mobile Computing Laboratory;
http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~imc/imc/doku.php Search http://mobilecomputing.com/
Continued
WHO YOU GONNA CALL? CONTINUED
search http://www.techtarget.com/ Education Week Leadership Forums;
www.edweekevents.org/engage-with-your-peers Books on mobile computing; www.target.com/ search
term – mobile computing books What have we learned? (blogs on iPads in learning)
http://blogs.vassar.edu/ipad/
USER DEMAND (STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY)
Megan “starred in, wrote the screenplay, created the visuals, did the editing, produced, directed and distributed her digital story”
Used the process to rid her bed of monsters
She was 5 years old Written 1994
USER DEMAND (STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY)
My Grand daughter, Morgan
1st computer experience – clapping and cheering within 5 minutes
Reader Rabbit – demo
Desktop mental construct
Born 1997
AGE AND GENERATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS
By birth year range (with some overlaps) …1945 – 1965 – Baby BoomersMid 1960s to early 1980s – Generation X1977 – 1997- Next Generation, aka Generation Y, Gen Y, Millennial1994 – 2004 Generation Z (Born Digital)June 2011 grade 12 graduates’ possible birth year―1993Megan may have entered post-secondary―2007Fall 2012 – look for Generation Z incoming students, maybe staff; faculty shortly after
USER DEMAND
Ask not, “What can mobile users do to support your IT?”
Ask not, “Will mobile users tolerate less-than-winning-quality Moodle?”
Photo - http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnfkennedy
Ask, “Can your school do without mobile users?”
MOBILE COMPUTING: WEB APPS AND MOODLE
Questions? Comments! Thanks Bill Fricker Bonne Journee Strategies 7908 – 149A Ave Edmonton, AB, T5C 2X2
www.bonnejourneestrategies.com
780-473-1034 office/home
780-909-0046 cell 780-637-4994 fax VC - 206.75.230.46 Skype - bill.fricker1