CSEV's unX and App Inventor MOOC presentation for the App Inventor Summit 2013

1. App
Inventor
Summit
2013
July,
17th
2013
A Latin American Community
for Entrepreneurship in the
Digital Economy

2.
Agenda
1. About
CSEV
2. What
is
unX
3. MOOC:
Entrepreneurship
and
Mobile
Applica@on
Development
with
App
Inventor
4. Feedback
from
unX
users

3.
1.
About
CSEV

4. World-class innovation on
Virtual and Mobile Learning.
Agile Link between Academic
and Business Innovation.
Design and Implementation of
Learning Projects.
New Methodologies: Open
Collaborative Innovation
Stakeholders Global
Ecosystem:
Universities, Corporations and
Training Institutions
Creation of New Jobs
Opportunities
Global Mobile Community for
Learning and Entrepreneurship
Mobile Learning
On-going projects on
Education and Entrepreneurship
Learning About Innovative
New Technologies for App
Development
Collaboration with:
Academic
Council
BOARD
OF
TRUSTEES
Center
for
Virtual
EducaGon
Private
FoundaGon
About
CSEV

5.
2.
What
is
unX?

6. http://www.redunx.org/

7.
• unX (http://www.redunx.org/)
is
a
learning
and
entrepreneurship
plaKorm
of
and
for
the
Ibero-­‐American
community
o In
Spanish
and
Portuguese
o Explicit
focus
on
the
needs
of
students,
the
under-­‐employed
and
the
unemployed
from
our
countries
o A
plaNorm
to
help
people
become
more
acGve
and
entrepreneurial
regarding
their
professional
lives
What
is
unX?
• Project partners:
New
alliances:

8. Entrepreneurship
Community
Learning
through
MOOCs
http://www.redunx.org/
unX:
More
than
a
MOOC
plaNorm
Courses
Created
by
University
professors

9. unX
entrepreneurship
community
Karma
recogniGon
Repository
Offer/
Demand
Board
Over
19,000
users
Most
of
the
traffic
on
unX
comes
from
Spain.
Followed
by
Brazil,
Mexico
and
Colombia.
Peru
is
the
fourth
largest
visitor.
ARer
it,
Argen@na,
Venezuela
and
the
USA.
*Data:
May
6th,
2013
1.800
likes
1.950
followers

10. unX
Learning
through
MOOCs
Badge
recogniGon
CerGficaGon
pilot
ECTS
European
credit
System
Challenges
5
Free
courses
(MOOCs)

11. Course
Enrolled
Nº
of
Teachers
Date
of
Launch
Total
unique
registered
users
19,080
-­‐-­‐
-­‐-­‐
Entrepreneurship
and
Mobile
ApplicaGon
Development
with
App
Inventor
6,196
3
November
15th
2012
Empreendimento
e
Desenvolvimento
de
AplicaGvos
Móveis
com
App
Inventor
2,258
3
Summer
Pilot
2013
–Sep.
2013
Transversal
competences
for
Entrepreneurship
course
1,518
5
and
more
collaborators
November
2012
IberVirtual
MOOC:
Digital
Basic
Skills
course
1,273
14
April
2013
The
most
1,000
useful
words
in
English
1,962
2
June
2013
Mythology
for
Entrepreneurs
354
2
June
2013
*Data:
May
6th,
2013
unX
course
Data

12.
3.
MOOC:
Entrepreneurship
and
Mobile
Applica@on
Development
with
App
Inventor

13. Entrepreneurship
and
App
Inventor
6
Challenges
App Inventor and Entrepreneurship

14. Challenge
1:
Create
my
first
applicaGon
MOOC:
Entrepreneurship
and
Mobile
Applica@on
Development
with
App
Inventor
Challenge
2:
The
secrets
of
a
"Killer
app"
Challenge
3:
How
to
create
a
great
app
design
Challenge
4:
How
to
create
an
advanced
app
Challenge
5:
Apps
moneGzaGon
Challenge
6:
Entrepreneurship
for
app
developers
• First
steps
with
App
Inventor:
(block
editor,
emulator,
buaons
proper@es…)
• The
aim
is
to
create
a
simple
tourisGc
app
• Main
features
to
analyze
mobile
apps.
Ex.
Angry
Birds
app
• Analysis
of
a
tourism
apps
• Fonts,
images,
background,
buaon
and
icon
personaliza@on,
Layout
and
alignment…
• Improvement
of
the
touris@c
app
design
• AcGvitystarter:
links,
emails,
maps.
• Social
secGon:
phone
calls
• Adding
links
and
maps
to
the
touris@c
app
• How
to
make
money
crea@ng
apps
• Google
Play:
Crea@ng
an
account
and
publishing
• Promo@ng
the
app
• Calcula@ng
revenue
generated
• Business
Plan
• …

15. • 45
minutes
to
study
• 2.5
hours
dedicaGon
App Inventor and Entrepreneurship
• 6
videos
per
Challenge
• Quizzes
• Peer
to
peer
acGviGes:
Final
task
• If
you
dare..
• AddiGonal
documentaGon

16. *Date:
June
16th,
2013
Entrepreneurship
and
Mobile
Applica@on
Development
with
AppInventor
course
Data
Challenge
Num.
of
people
who
started
it
Num.
of
people
who
finished
it
%
Challenge
1:
Create
my
first
applicaGon
3,603
967
26.8
Challenge
2:
The
secrets
of
a
"Killer
app"
1,618
610
37.7
Challenge
3:
How
to
create
a
great
app
design
1,319
579
43.9
Challenge
4:
How
to
create
an
advanced
app
1,084
402
37.1
Challenge
5:
Apps
moneGzaGon
954
259
27.2
Challenge
6:
Entreprenership
for
app
developers
578
103
17.8
Total unique registered user in the course: 6,196

17.
4.
Feedback
from
unX
users

18. • Main
technical
issues:
(Solved
with
the
new
App
Inventor
version)
o Downloads
and
Setup
issues
o Issues
in
the
use
of
java
to
execute
the
Blocks
Editor
and
Emulator
• With
images,
video,
buaons,
and
sound
on
the
devise.
(They
report
the
Error
601)
•
New
func@onali@es
and
main
ques@ons:
o When
it
would
available
for
other
devices
like
tablets?
o Web
data
storage
integraGon
would
be
available
in
the
future?
o Is
it
going
to
be
an
opGmized
version
of
App
Inventor
Gallery?
• More
professional
orienta@on:
use
sta@s@c,
payment
integra@on…(alterna@ve
to
Google
Play)
• What
are
the
advantages
of
upload
the
apps
to
the
Gallery?
Feedback
from
unX
users
Very
posiGve
opinion
over
the
course
and
the
App
Inventor
tool

19. • Other
new
func@onali@es
and
main
ques@ons:
o They
would
like
to
have
a
guide
document
with
informa@on
about
“all
you
can
create
with
App
Inventor”.
They
only
can
get
the
sense
of
it
by
having
a
look
at
the
App
Inventor
Gallery
o Besides
Android
V2.0,
When
it
would
be
available
for
other
mobile
plaKorms?
o There
are
only
4
font
types.
When
would
they
have
more?
Are
they
going
to
add
the
leker
Ñ
on
component
names?
o Would
it
be
new
advanced
courses
of
App
Inventor?
§ At
unX
plaNorm
§ Links
or
sugges@ons
to
App
Inventor
courses
on
unX
o When
it
would
be
available
a
CerGficaGon
besides
the
Badges
accredita@on?
Feedback
from
unX
users

20. Thank you!
Raquel Fernández
CSEV - unX Project Manager
rfernandez@csev.org
CSEV
www.csev.org
info@csev.org
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