TU Delft goes Mobile at BbTLC10

11-04-23

Challenge the future

DelftUniversity ofTechnology

TU Delft goes Mobile

Ir. W.F. van Valkenburg

2TU Delft goes Mobile

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, 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


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-resultshttp://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 [email protected]/wfvanvalkenburg

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