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The Mobile Campus: Stanford App

August 15, 2011 Grant Sabatier

This is the fourth post in a four part series on The Mobile Campus. This series examines how students are using smart phones and the impact on higher education. To read the first post on mobile application use click here. To read the second post on Foursquare for universities click here. For the third post on iPad textbooks click here. For the last post in The Mobile Campus series I wanted to focus on university mobile apps. Several universities have…

The Mobile Campus: Foursquare For Universities

August 7, 2011 Grant Sabatier

This is the second post in a four part series on The Mobile Campus. This series examines how students are using smart phones and the impact on higher education. To read the first post on mobile application use click here. Last week it was announced that Texas A&M is an exclusive launch partner for the Foursquare for Universities 2.0 program. The next step in the evolution of location based mobile applications on campuses, allows users to get special university sponsored…

The New Higher Ed Model

August 7, 2011 collegeof2020

Higher education is about to undergo a profound shift to a new more-open style with many competitors and options, even more than there are right now. The traditional style of higher education – residential four-year bachelor-degree oriented campuses – will hang on, but increasingly wane as the predominant model of higher education. The College of 2020 is grounded in the ideas that will contribute to that shift, ideas we first expressed two years ago in the report The College of…