ACU is currently exploring mLearning on campus in a series of coordinated ways, each designed to understand the role converged devices can play in higher education. Nine teams of faculty, staff, and student researchers are actively working to discover what's next:

• The Administrative & Infrastructure Team is examining ways university administrators can leverage converged devices for standard administrative tasks and revenue development;
• The Application & Programming Team is developing front-end and middleware applications to help users take full advantage of the new capabilities offered by converged devices; 
• The Digital Media Interaction Team is exploring ways that campus media can use new strategies to inform the university population about news and events;
• The Living & Learning Team is considering the social applications of converged devices for residence life and student affairs;
• The Pedagogical Innovations Team is developing new teaching and active-learning strategies based on ubiquitous deployment of converged devices;
• The Podcasting Group (a separate university initiative) is coordinating its efforts with the other mLearning teams to think about mobile devices as a platform for educational media; 
• The Social Interactions Team is considering ways to use converged devices to strengthen student and faculty community;
• The Student Research Team is gathering requests for features and applications from students and relaying student responses to applications being developed by the other teams;
• The Study Coordination & Invention Team is seeking synthesis and coherence among the teams and providing broad theoretical direction. 
  

Through these teams and their efforts, we hope better to understand how to connect academics, social activities, administrative tasks, and on-campus commerce in the 21st-century university - a comprehensive view of the future of higher education.

We'll continue to post our progress here. You might also want to check out iThinkEd, a blog to which many of our faculty and staff contribute and home to news and analysis regarding the future of converged mobile computing in higher education.