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Friday, 9th July 2010

New Issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly (33.2, 2010): "Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web"

A new issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly (33.2) has hit the web with a focus on cloud computing. Included in the mix are two articles that might be of special interest.

1. Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web by Alan W. Aldrich

Key Takeaways:

+ Web-enabled smartphones (and their applications) have converged with cloud computing to change the ways people interact with each other and their environments.

+ The academic community has only recently adopted mobile technology, and the few existing studies focus on one or two institutions rather than taking a cross-institutional view of mobile websites.

+ The study reported here examined the mobile websites of large research universities and their libraries in the United States and Canada.

+ Results found that few functions on university mobile websites clearly addressed educational needs, highlighting an opportunity to provide more educational links and applications.

Note: If you're looking for a resource that provides a large amount of mobile web coverage (especially as it relates to libraries) including a steady stream of new and/or updated mobile web sites and tools from libraries and other organizations then you've come to the right place. The mobile web is one of the many topics we focus on here at ResourceShelf.

Here's a look at some of our mobile coverage beginning with the most recent entries.

See Also: What are mobile friendly library sites offering? A survey. (by Aaron Tay, Musings About Librarianship; April, 2010)

2. Insights and Opinions: If You Twitter, Will They Come? by Charles B. Hodges

Key Takeaways:

Despite the widespread popularity of online social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter, many students exhibit a reluctance to include faculty in their social networks.

Given these personal preferences, how do social networks and education intersect?

A pilot using Twitter to communicate important information about lab hours and support services yielded minimal student response.

Academic researchers and those creating course management systems should keep a close eye on the elements that have attracted so many users to social networks, but merging education into social networks might not be the solution to reaching students online.


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