Quoting Tracy Ann Kosa <TracyAnn.Kosa@uoit.ca>:
I'm wondering if anybody knows of any interesting apps that universities have developed for their students to use?
Hi Tracy, One good place to "browse" is the Chronicle of Higher Education ( http://chronicle.com/ ) and search for iPhone ... you will catch a large variety of mobile application news ... about 400 articles for the last two years ... Gerry McKiernan has a mobile libraries blog, listserv, and fan page on facebook ? - http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/ On my own iPhone, I have apps for - DukeMobile (Duke University) - iStanford - iTexas (developed by students, not the university, running into TM issues !) - UC Berkeley (The Daily Cal, a student run newspaper) as well as - myTown Not all university applications are developed at universities ... aside from packages like Blackboard and Moodle, there are several commercial sites that provide campus like portals ? e.g. - http://www.campuslive.com/harvard - http://www.campuslive.com/mit - http://www.campuslive.com/ucla --- There's also a set of middleware called "StudentForce" that data mines institutional databases and repackages it for students and their parents ? grades and GPA, term bills, banking transactions ("Send money!"), meals and meal plans, tickets, ... http://studentforce.ning.com/ http://sites.force.com/appexchange/listingDetail?listingId=a0N300000016aUcEA... Steve