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Four ways to prepare your IT infrastructure for a mobile learning revolution


To solve this problem, our Director of Network and Security had to employ some very creative solutions to cure this issue. Since these issues are bound to arise, it is vital that your campus’ wireless technology leader be involved as soon as possible to see what the hurdles may be and what it will take to overcome these challenges.

Be prepared if he or she recommends a total network overhaul.

1. Dream Big. Strategize Accordingly.

For an East Tennessee community college to have hundreds of mobile devices in its classrooms with students utilizing these devices to surpass their educational goals, we needed only two dreamers–our institution’s President and our Vice President of Academic Affairs. However, it took many individuals, meetings, and resources to pull it off in a very short amount of time.

While it may have appeared that we at Walters State did not have a pilot program and just jumped in with both feet ordering hundreds of iPads at a time, do not be mislead. Behind the scenes there were IT groups, our instructional design team, mobile learning task forces, individual faculty members crafting mobile learning plans, and several deans and faculty members huddled in conference rooms strategizing a plethora of factors on how this mobile learning initiative will work pedagogically and logistically.

It was a huge team effort and we wanted our students to be the winners. As our Vice President has already shared in previous posts (implementing mobile learning across campus, training faculty and staff on mobile learning) we believe that this became a reality.

This post originally appeared on WCET Frontiers. WCET accelerates the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education.

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