As one of the top-ranked public research universities in the world, the University of Washington, based in Seattle, WA, brings together 65,000 students, faculty members, and administrative staff. From the laboratory to the dormitory, this thriving academic community stays connected with iPhone and the university\u2019s proprietary m.UW app, which gives students and staff mobile access to campus maps, news, directories, course schedules, and lectures.<\/p>\n
The University of Washington\u2019s extensive educational offerings include 250 undergraduate and graduate degree programs within 150 departments, centered in 18 different colleges and schools on three campuses with programs offered around the world. \u201cOur students and staff are global, and we need to be connected wherever we are,\u201d says David Morton, Director of Mobile Communication Strategies. \u201cThe community, because of its nature, is always on the go.\u201d<\/p>\n
To serve the needs of its far-flung students and staff, the university provides the technology and infrastructure to make resources constantly available to its users, regardless of location. While supporting a range of technologies for mobile platforms, the iPhone OS has stepped up as a campus favorite.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether a student is sitting at a desk, walking across campus, or halfway around the world, we make sure they are part of the university community,\u201d Morton says. \u201cOur students and iPhone are pushing us \u2014 and the rest of the world \u2014 where we are going with mobility. iPhone and the technologies it brings together are transforming the way we live, teach, and learn.\u201d<\/p>\n
iPhone Anywhere<\/strong> \u201cThe community isn\u2019t defined any longer by where we are,\u201d says Grant Kollet, Director of First-Year Programs at the university. \u201cIt\u2019s not about place; the community is about activity, and the activity depends on communication and interaction. iPhone supports how we are doing business and how we are educating.\u201d<\/p>\n iPhone is the go-to communicator because it makes connectivity easy. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have to do any custom work to get iPhone users on our network,\u201d says Morton. \u201cThe Safari browser is industry-standard, and everything on the Web works on iPhone.\u201d<\/p>\n Faculty and staff can connect via iPhone to the university\u2019s Microsoft Exchange server for push email, calendar, and contacts. Users simply type in their Exchange credentials on iPhone, and it auto-discovers their account information. UW users can also use iPhone to connect with standards-based IMAP mail servers, which the university supports as well.<\/p>\n Connected Campus<\/strong> \u201cThe iPhone SDK does make it easy to develop a functioning iPhone application,\u201d Morton says. \u201cYou can create and prototype with Xcode and the Interface Builder, so you can try different things and bring them together.\u201d<\/p>\n Available for free in the App Store, the m.UW app gives iPhone users a searchable directory, course information, campus news and events, maps, and more than a thousand video lectures. \u201cWhen you have m.UW and all that rich University of Washington information, you\u2019re taking connectedness to a whole new level,\u201d says Tony Chang, University of Washington Integration Architect.<\/p>\n Since its release, m.UW has been downloaded thousands of times from people in more than 33 countries. \u201ciPhone gives us an entirely new way of communicating, building community, and tailoring information,\u201d says Kollet. \u201cThis app is about the university \u2014 not just students, but also prospective students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It\u2019s a way to stay in touch with everything that is going on here, with the energy that is the University of Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHaving university data easily accessible on iPhone is a marriage made in heaven,\u201d adds Chang. \u201ciPhone is a game-changer that is transforming this university.\u201d<\/p>\n And that transformation has only just begun. \u201cWe\u2019re at the start of a mobile technology revolution,\u201d Morton says. \u201cThe world of education is changing rapidly in terms of how students learn and interact. We see iPhone as a leader in these directions.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: Apple, Inc – Washington University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As one of the top-ranked public research universities in the world, the University of Washington, based in Seattle, WA, brings together 65,000 students, faculty members, and administrative staff. From the laboratory to the dormitory, this thriving academic community stays connected with iPhone and the university\u2019s proprietary m.UW app, which gives students and staff mobile access…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe University of Washington IT department, UW Technology, supports mobility with seamless public Wi-Fi for all devices throughout its main campus. Morton estimates that in any given month, over 15,000 handheld mobile devices connect to his network \u2014 and about 90 percent of those are running iPhone OS.<\/p>\n
\nThe university maximizes learning on the go with its iTunes U site and custom app, m.UW. m.UW is a mobile app available to users, online and for a number of mobile platforms, with the iPhone version quickly becoming most popular. To develop m.UW for iPhone, the university\u2019s web services and integration teams worked alongside an outside developer, taking less than six weeks to finish it.<\/p>\n