The survey of 308 students found that 50% use a smartphone, with HTC being the most popular brand. Hi/KPN was the most used provider, with over 80% of smartphone users having a data subscription. More than 85% of smartphone users access the mobile web daily, with Blackboard, timetables, and mail being the most desired services for mobile access according to the survey results.
Using the Altmetric.com bookmarklet and ImpactStory_5June2014SarahG_SS
This document provides instructions for using the Altmetric and ImpactStory tools to view metrics and track the impact of scholarly publications. It explains how to install the Altmetric bookmarklet to see metrics for articles with DOIs. It also outlines how to set up an ImpactStory profile by connecting accounts and importing publications to view altmetrics and track citations, downloads and mentions over time.
Supercharging the blackboard learn notification systemKenny Verbeke
This document discusses enhancing Blackboard's notification system. It describes issues with the current system, including usability problems and performance issues. The proposed changes include developing a new "What's Recent" module that displays notifications chronologically with more details. Notifications would also be accessible externally through RSS feeds and a mobile-friendly webpage. Future enhancements could include filtering, sorting, marking notifications as read/unread, and integrating with Twitter. A demo of the new system is planned along with beta testing before full release.
The document discusses the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), which is a collaboration of over 200 higher education institutions creating open educational course content. The OCWC aims to advance education worldwide by providing open course materials. It summarizes the benefits of OCWC membership, which include consultation, collaboration, collective visibility, and sustainability support. Current OCWC projects highlighted include the OCWC Toolkit, discipline-based content collaborations, and technological collaborations.
This document discusses TU Delft's efforts to integrate open educational resources (OER) into campus courses. It provides examples of two courses that incorporated OER - Differential Equations and Structural Analysis and Design. Student feedback indicated that OER helped prepare them for class and exams when used as supplemental reference materials. The lecturer observed students asking more thoughtful questions. While exam results were mixed, overall OER integration seemed to have a positive impact on student preparation and engagement. The document advocates designing education around active learning activities rather than just providing materials.
The document discusses TU Delft's efforts to provide mobile services to students. A survey found over 60% of students have smartphones, with iPhones most popular. Over 80% have data plans and use mobile web daily. TU Delft is improving wifi, releasing Blackboard and iTunesU mobile apps, and a new course for students to develop more mobile apps using the Blackboard SDK. The university aims to better serve the large portion of students accessing education services via mobile devices.
This document discusses the production of open educational resources (OER) and analyzes three case studies to determine characteristics that influence the efficiency of OER production. It introduces the three case studies - OpenER from Open Universiteit Nederland, OpenLearn from the UK Open University, and Delft University of Technology's OpenCourseWare. For each case, it describes the project details and analyzes the production process based on identified characteristics like availability of existing materials, quality assurance processes, experience of authors, costs of development, and types of OER created. The document concludes that the degree of automation, size of supporting staff, and types of interactive/multimedia elements included most influence production costs, with more automated processes and