Rick Murch-Shafer of Creighton University
Question - can an online course be completed in such a way that it can be completed on only a mobile device.
The presenter clarified that, for the purposes of this talk, mobile computing is tablet computing and, specifically, the iPad. He is not talking about mobile phones and not really android tablets like the nook tablet or Kindle ( he asked how many people in the room had an android tablet with them right now. No one raised their hand. He asked how many had iPads - many people raised their hands. I have a Kindle fire and made a choice to leave it home. If I had brought it, it would have been in addition to my iPad, instead of it)
What can we do in course design to make course more mobile friendly.
Mobile safari browser makes it fine to use the native LMS, even without the app
Readings work well (files). Indeed, mobile device is a better reading experience than desktop
Quizzes
Communications
What doesnt work well
Flash based content (does work on the Kindle fire)
Uploaded media through Kultura (the on the fly recordings) . Alternately, you can use YouTube
Synchronous meetings
submitting assignments (can't save files to iOS so it is not possible to attach files - new canvas iOS app allows uploaded assignments
Google docs - doesn't work well on iPad. Can put files on Google Drive and can upload them to canvas with Polaris Office or Quick Office
New canvas iOS app has Dropbox integration and the ability to email document
1 create in Pages or whatever. Email to self with share feature
2 open the attachment and open in other app - canvas shows up as an options. Choose it and submit the assignment - cool!
Preparing students
Put it in the syllabus/ getting started
What apps do they need to have?
Workflow - have explicit instructions for the students
Standardization and support for faculty ( create some standard language for syllabus saying "this class is mobile friendly"
Clarity on minimum system requirements. Which mobile devices will it work for?
One commenter recommended the puffin browser for viewing flash
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