Title :
The utilization of a mobile computing environment in undergraduate education
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Abstract :
The use of computers is ubiquitous in today´s business communities, and is becoming so in education. However, this increased use has led to more problems for financially strapped educational institutions through the ever increasing demand for space and the continuous obsolescence of equipment. It is obviously time to think of student ownership as a means to meet demands for computer use, as casts of individual machines are falling below charges passed on by educational institutions. The paper presents a proposal for student ownership of laptop computers and networking through wireless communication as the environment of choice
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; engineering education; laptop computers; local area networks; mobile radio; computer use; educational institutions; laptop computers; mobile computing environment; networking; student ownership; undergraduate education; wireless communication; Computer science education; Costs; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Jacobian matrices; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Portable computers; Proposals; Wireless communication;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3348-9
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1996.573038
