CES not only boosts a massive show floor there is also a session’s portion of the conference. Most of my focus was on higher education. Much of the panel discussions dealt with stoical data that provide some background on students as digital consumers. The data showed that the top 5 online activities among student is checking grades, updating online profiles(ie facebook), checking assignments, checking email, and checking weather. The top sites they visited were Google(69%), Facebook (68% and roughly 160min weekly), Youtube(64%), ABC.com, Wikipedia, yahoo, and Amazon.
Students entering hire education today are considered digital natives in that they expect to be able to engage with others and gain feedback almost instantaneously online. They also expect to access anything, anywhere and everywhere. Today’s student want to see continual innovation to meet the demands of their rapid changing world.
YouTube EDU launched this past year is a great example of broadcasting education al material to today’s students. Since Youtube is one of the top visited sites by students it is only fitting that they developed their own educational entity. The site collects and highlight all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities and organizes them in catergories.
A couple univeristy’s were mentioned as leaders in high tech innovation among higher education.
ACU was the first university in the nation to distribute iPhones or iPod touches to incoming students. This allowed students to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors' offices, and check their meal and account balances. ACU's vision for technology has been captured in a forward-looking film called 'Connected,' found online - along with information about ACU's other ground-breaking mobile learningefforts - at www.acu.edu/connected.
Also highlighted was Stanford’s iStandford program. iStanford allows users can access a campus map and course catalog, e-mail professors and get news and information about sports teams.
In the newest version, students can add and drop courses, see the real-time whereabouts of the on-campus shuttle bus, review their grades and course history and perform a variety of other administrative tasks that are normally accessible only over secure campus networks. That's because, in an unusual move, Stanford's IT folks allowed the developers to connect to core computer systems at Stanford.
See more about it here. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/march18/iphone-031809.html
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