Briefing to the SEAS Oxford Leadership Council

1. A joint venture between SEAS, AIMS, and IT
Services
http://mlearning.muohio.edu/mlc
Twitter: @miami_mlearning

2. Summary
• Research
• Software Projects
• Outreach and Community
• Courses
• Funding
• Plan for upcoming year
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3. Purpose
• Unify efforts in mobile space on the
campus
• Provide faculty, staff, and students a
resource for mobile learning and mobile
computing
• Support faculty by providing software
development expertise
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4. Summary of Activities
• Research
• Software Development
• Outreach
• Courses
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5. Research
• AFRL Discovery Lab / Miami Mobile Learning Center
Scholarship Program
– Year-At-The-Edge (YATE) program supporting 11 students in
SEAS, AIMS, SFA (originally slated for 4-6 students); Increasing
to 18-21 students for next academic year
– Work directed by Center for academic year, directed at AFRL in
Summer
– Total funding from AFRL: $71K (direct to students)
– Miami is contributing space, equipment, faculty time, and
professional development funds
– Faculty from CSE, ECE, AIMS will mentor students
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6. Research
• “App Development in the Miami University Mobile Learning
Center”, Gerald C. Gannod, Kristen M. Bachman, James D.
Kiper, Glenn J. Platt, Robert Howard, and Micah Cooper, in CSEET
Smartphones in the Curriculum Workshop, May 2011.
• “An Evaluation Framework for M-Learning”, Gerald C. Gannod and
Kristen M. Bachman, in Proceedings of the 2011 International
Conference on Computer Supported Education, May 2011.
• “Integrating M-Learning into a Broad Context: Issues and
Recommendations”, Gerald C. Gannod and Kristen M. Bachman, in
Proceedings of the 2011 Mobile Learning Conference, March 2011.
• “A Critical Analysis of M-Learning Initiatives”, Gerald C. Gannod and
Kristen M. Bachman, in Proceedings of the 2011 Mobile Learning
Conference, March 2011.
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7. Research
• External Grants
– Research Buddy: Revolutionizing
Undergraduate Student Research using
Mobile Technology. (PI: G. Gannod, co-PI: G.
Platt, Procter & Gamble, 2011, $10,000 total).
This project is funded by a Procter & Gamble
Higher Education Grant.
– Summer Support for K. Bachman, Nestle
Corporation, Summer 2011.
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8. Research
• NSF Cyberlearning Program
– Developing a proposal across four divisions to
support looking at new ways of learning with
mobile devices
• SEAS, EHS, CAS, FSB
– $1.35M target for 5 years
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9. Research
• Messer Construction
– Developing a proposal w/B. Brinkman
– $60K target for 1 year to develop AR system
for visualizing Building Information Models
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10. Research
• Smart or Smashed
– Alcohol abuse prevention
/ intervention app
– Research project in
collaboration with R.M.
Ward in EHS
– Recently submitted
proposal to support this
work
– Student Developers
• SEAS, SFA
Buckeye Vodka, Miller
Coors
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11. Software Projects
• Miami University
iPhone Application
– Funding provided by
Student Tech
Fee, University IT and
University
Communications
– First Released on Nov.
30th,, 2010
• 13,536 Users
– Student Developers
• SEAS, SFA
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12. Active Users
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13. Software Projects
• my Metro
– MUITDC Winner
– Interdisciplinary project with
students from disciplines
across the university
– Real-time tracking of Miami
Metro buses
– Integrated into the Miami
App
– Received long-term funding
to deploy to full bus system
– Channel 9 news!
– Servers went live yesterday
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14. Software Projects
• Today’s Dad
– Ohio Commission on
Fatherhood
– Over 60% of children in
Ohio born to single parent
families
– Educating expectant and
new fathers
– App supports lifelong
education
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15. Software Projects
• Research Buddy
– Work funded by
Procter and Gamble
and Nestle
• App that aggregates
important research
data collection
features into one
platform
– In discussions with
Cincinnati Zoo
Academy for piloting
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16. Software Projects
• Chatterhawks
– Supports alumni events
on iPad (think modified
“speed dating” format)
– Supported by alumni
office
– In-progress (slated for
Late Fall internal
release)
– Student Developers
• CSE Capstone
• Student Hourly
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17. Outreach and Community
• Outreach
– IT Forum on the Hamilton Campus (Feb
2012)
• Keynote
• Student presentations of projects
– K-12 Summer Camp (July 2012) w/J.Burge
• Girls on the Go: The Mobile Computing College
Experience
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18. Education
• Virtual Smartphone Academy
– $25K proposal to AFRL for a hybrid course
– On-line lectures
– Learning exercises for a course delivered via
virtual reality (opensim)
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19. Courses
• CSE 470 Mobile Application Development
– Summer 2012 (Pilot)
• CSE 451/551 Service Oriented Computing
– Spring 2012
• CSE 448/449 Senior Capstone
– Two projects AY11-12 (See Projects Section)
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20. Courses
• IMS 440 IMS Practicum
– One project AY11-12 with Ames Publishing (R.
Howard)
• IMS 351 Introduction to Mobile
Development
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21. Funding Summary since
• AFRL/MLC Feb’11
• Research Buddy
Scholarship ($71K + ($12K)
$7K contributed by • Android Tablet
SEAS) Equipment Grant
• Miami iPhone App ($18K)
Development ($17K) • Chatterhawks ($3.5K)
• Bus tracking • Summer support
deployment ($24.5K) ($10K)
• Total ($156K)
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22. Plans for upcoming year
• Funding
– Development / Sponsorship
– Working on establishing project with Dragonfly
• Personnel
– Establish stronger bond with EHS faculty and
faculty across the university
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23. Our Needs
• Staff support: Non-student software
developer full to manage software projects
– Allow me to focus on fund-raising, research
efforts
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