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Responses to the #1 topic on IdeaScale, " Consumers dictate device usage, not IT, " indicate that MANY of you believe consumers will drive smartphone adoption in Higher Education, w…

Thursday’s installment of the EDUCAUSE Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint took up knotty questions of security, privacy, and policy for mobile computing. Most of us don’t have a deep understan…

In this webinar hosted by Veronica Diaz, Associate Director of ELI, the topic of teaching and learning with mobile devices is discussed by: Kyle Bowen , Director of Informatics, Purdue U…

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology has operated a Mobile Laptop Program from its inception in 2003.  All seven thousand undergraduate students are required to participate in the p…

Very small computing devices represent a new frontier in the computer security war. Mobile devices amplify existing security concerns while introducing a new set of risks, but most people have an…

Looking for the Day 4 Recap ?   On Wednesday, the EDUCAUSE Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint unmoored itself from discussions that largely concerned the “why” of mobile computing an…

Dolf Jordaan is head of e-learning at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. In this interview, he gives us some insights into the use of mobile devices in South Africa both generally an…

Users increasingly expect to be able to do virtually everything on a mobile device that they can do on a laptop (if not more ). The initial decision point for any mobile development program wo…

Join us on Thursday, April 28, for day 4 of the EDUCAUSE Mobile Computing 5-Day Sprint . Thursday's activities will focus on security, privacy, and policy issues related to mobile computi…

Last night a young friend’s four-year-old sat on my lap playing on my iPad 2. His mother told me that they had discovered strange charges on their credit card. Yes, little Lyndon had downloaded…