The document summarizes an App Inventor Summit held by CSEV, a center for virtual education. It discusses CSEV and its work in mobile learning and entrepreneurship. A key focus is the unX platform, which offers free MOOCs to the Latin American community, including a popular course on app development using App Inventor. Feedback from users of this course is presented, noting technical issues with the platform and requests for expanded device and data support.

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
twitter: @fcsev