TU Delft goes Mobile at BbTLC10

TU Delft goes Mobile Ir. W.F. van Valkenburg

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
Chair of the Dutch Blackboard Usergroup (NLBBUG)
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, 2009 http://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

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, Google Nexus, iPad

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-results http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2010/03/mobile-use-at-edinburgh.html

What are the consequences?
60% of our students = 10.000 smart phones on the campus
10.000 devices extra devices using Eduroam
Many students also use a laptop
Statistics of mobile devices on blackboard.tudelft.nl

What does Delft do?
Infrastructure
Improve the wifi network
Blackboard Mobile
iPhone app
BlackBerry app
Mobile website m.tudelft.nl
Android
iTunesU

iTU Delft: iPhone app
Release 1 is live
Campus Map
News
Events
Library Catalog (discover)
Video
Release 2
Phone book
Courses
iTunesU video
In next releases
Timetables
Blackboard integration
PC availability app

TU Delft on iTunesU
TU Delft on iTunesU since February 2010.
First university in the Netherlands
Started with 200 video’s

Future development
Elective course Mobile Service Innovation: Design & Engineering
Students will create apps with the Blackboard Mobile SDK
Class starts in September 2010
Students from Computer Science, Industrial Design and System Engineering

Questions?
Presentation is on www.slideshare.com/wfvanvalkenburg
Ir. W.F. van Valkenburg [email_address] www.e-learn.nl twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg

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