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WordPress as a Mobile Learning Environment
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, , , Abilene Christian University, United States

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, in San Diego, CA, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-78-5 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC USA

Abstract

In 2008 Abilene Christian University distributed iPhones and iPod touches to incoming freshmen and faculty in the first year of its Connected mobile learning initiative http://www.acu.edu/connected. Though initial faculty experiments included podcasting, interaction and response tools, a mobile portal, and apps in a range of disciplines, most classes remained tied to a Learning Management System with no viable mobile strategy. This panel will report on a faculty-led pilot last spring that proposed WordPress MU as a platform for class sites to serve 80% of commons uses of the LMS. The success of the pilot pushed a campus deployment of WordPress up the summer priorities list so that this fall we had 146 faculty deploy 287 class blogs serving over 3,000 members of the student body http://blogs.acu.edu. Panel topics will include faculty training and support for the deployment, integration of post by email as a mobile blogging solution, and what this system suggests about the future of learning systems and platforms.

Citation

Dickson, K., Wiggins, M. & Harapnuik, D. (2010). WordPress as a Mobile Learning Environment. In D. Gibson & B. Dodge (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE 2010--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference (pp. 2212-2213). San Diego, CA, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 19, 2024 from .

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