SPM9613: TU Delft goes mobile

11-04-2023

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

TU Delft goes Mobile

Ir. W.F. van Valkenburg

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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

• Blog on www.e-learn.nl • Twitter on twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg

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Agenda

• The development of mobile phones• Results TU Delft Mobile Survey• What is TU Delft doing?• Future developments• Questions

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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, 2009http://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

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Tech Cycles Tend to last 10 years

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New Computing Cycle Characteristics

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Adoption is going faster

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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, iPad, Samsung Galaxy

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Apple iPhone/iTouch

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TU Delft Mobile Survey

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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.

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Respondents

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Type of mobile phone

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Which brand of mobile phone

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Platform of the smart phones

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Providers

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Data subscription

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Features of the mobile phone

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Which features do you use

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Web Access

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Which services should TUD provide

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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.

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

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Blackboard on your mobile phone

• Browser

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What does Delft do?• Infrastructure

• Improve the wifi network

• Blackboard Mobile Central• iPhone app• BlackBerry app• Mobile website m.tudelft.nl• Android

• Blackboard Mobile Learn• Coming soon

• iTunesU

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Blackboard Mobile Central

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Blackboard Mobile Central – How it works (1)

University services

Mobile Central Cloud

Users

cache

authentication

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Blackboard Mobile Central – How it works (2)

• Connections based on xml:

• News via rss-feeds

• Other via web services

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Blackboard Mobile Learn

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TU Delft on iTunesU

• TU Delft on iTunesU since February 2010.

• First university in the Netherlands

• Started with 200 video’s and now 276

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Future developments

• New Software: iOS4.x, Android, Windows 7, webOS

• New Hardware: iPhone 4, Samsung, etc.

• New Services: you?

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Concluding remarks

• Students are early adopters with mobile technology

• 60% already has a smart phone

• Students use internet on their phone very frequently

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Questions?

Presentation is onblackboard and www.slideshare.com/wfvanvalkenburg

Ir. W.F. van Valkenburgw.f.vanvalkenburg@tudelft.nlwww.e-learn.nltwitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg