Location-Based Services Will Rock Higher Ed
Imagine if you could see check-ins to libraries and student activity centers; imagine if you could see trends in social habits. The campus is a natural place for mobile-device mediated friend making. People freely friend on Facebook and all of these services. Increasing the frequency that students bump into one another in virtual spaces (which double as real ones with location-based services) drives how connected they feel to one another, even in real life.
5 Reasons Higher Ed Can Forget about Location-Based Services
Location-based services are all the rage. Whether it’s Foursquare, Gowalla or MyTown, tech blogs are bombarding us with every reason imaginable for why these mobile tools are the future of marketing. But before you buy into the hype and sign up for all the geo-focused social networks you can find, here are my five reasons why higher ed can, for now, forget about location based services.
Location Based Gaming in Higher Ed: Harvard and Foursquare
As we recently covered, the location-based gaming for Higher Ed battle is just beginning. Gowalla has started “featured trips” at a few universities, including University of Texas at Austin. But after announcing a partnership with Intel for the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and winning the annual crunchies award for best Mobile Application, [...]
Location-Based Gaming in Education?
We all saw it coming as soon as the iPhone came out. It took a few years, but finally Foursquare and Gowalla have proved the viability of location-based gaming. Location-based gaming is going to prove be a great leap in both augmented reality and computer-facilitated interaction: it will reveal peer-to-peer recommendations
