Our Vision
As a university, ACU has invested much energy considering emerging trends in education. We've done this because our ongoing goal to help prepare our students for Christian service and leadership throughout the world calls for continual reevaluation of almost everything that happens in and out of the classroom -- even a reevaluation of what constitutes the classroom itself.
In the spring of 2007, a group of educators, technologist, and administrators at ACU crystallized these ongoing discussions, producing a case for a new emphasis on mobile learning based on ubiquitous information access through powerful, portable, converged devices. Made possible by the broad capabilities offered by a new generation of these devices, we see the future of the university coalescing around the new opportunities that mLearning is bringing.
To explore mLearning at ACU further, you might want to look over these pages outlining what we're thinking and where we believe mobile computing is heading.
- Convergence and the 21st-Century Classroom: Our case for mLearning in higher education; here are some key issues that we think will shape teaching and learning in the 21st century.
- Envisioning the 21st-Century Campus: A series of case studies for mLearning applications in higher education; these stories inform what we're doing - and where we're going.
- Solutions for the 21st-Century University: An initial list of academic, social, administrative, and infrastructure applications; these show what could be addressed by pervasive adoption of converged mobile devices.
