Who’s app-y now?
- Article 14 of 15
- EducationInvestor, March 2014
A growing number of universities are using mobile applications to keep in touch with their students. Rob Buckley reports
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Tablets and mobile devices are certainly seeing short-term interest from education institutions. Their longer-term viability will depend on several factors: whether good uses can be found for them that don't take up too much time or resources; whether there's good content appropriate to courses being generated and made available in tablet-suitable formats; and whether there are content creations tools that allow teachers to create lesson resources easily. If these obstacles aren't overcome, tablets are liable to end up being under-used or even ignored as educators move on to the next piece of "shiny hardware".
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