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Universities offering 'App' class

Created by : Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech  | 02 02 2010 08:03:59 +0000
Industry : IT ProductsFunctional Area : Infrastructure(Technology)
Keywords : engineering developing courses universities apple app store
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Apple's App Store is one of the greatest entrepreneurial tools the world has ever seen with over 140,000 apps and over three billion downloads. Now even universities, recognising its potential, have begun to offer a course in app development. Few Universities offering its courses are University of Minnesota, Stanford, MIT, and the University of Washington also have similar iPhone development courses and certificates.

They are training students to innovative design and development opportunities for meaningful online learning teaching them create both web-based and native apps, and the target audience, interactivity, problem space, and context for the designs will be their choice. The primary goal of the course is to inspire and support students in thinking creatively as they envision and develop apps for the future of education and online learning. For the first semester, the iPhone, iPad, and Apple iPhone SDK are the tools that are used.

So users, do you think students will opt for such courses?

  
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Surely students will opt for these courses. The market of iPhone or iPad offers exciting interaction possibilities and steers away from developing for the lowest common technology denominator. For example, the design of an app that motivates students to go out and explore/document their surroundings by capturing geotagged media (videos, photos, text) analyzing these media, and collaborating with their peers is an exciting opportunity. When a single device affords these types of possibilities in a simple app.
By Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech  | 02 02 2010 08:05:00 +0000
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Indeed this career seems to be very interesting but still at least in a country like India, its career opportunity is not so high and because of this, I don't think many students will be interested in this career. Maybe students can opt for this career but I don't this they will chose this career very soon.
By Mahalakshmi Subramanium, QA/QC Manager, Genpact  | 02 02 2010 08:07:27 +0000
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