The utilization of a mobile computing environment in undergraduate education

Author

Jacobs, H.R.

Author_Institution

Coll. of Eng., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

6-9 Nov 1996

Firstpage

656

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Salt Lake City, UT

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3348-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1996.573038

Filename

573038