iPhone app for fresher students

21 Nov. 2009 11:30pm

A university is offering a free iPhone application it has developed
to help students starting their first term.

Students will be able to check
maps of their university town

The University of Central Lancashire in Preston says the mobile phone service will provide maps and details of entertainment and local transport.

There will also be details of campus facilities and access to students' university e-mail accounts.

Director of learning, Michael Ahern, say this will help connect with students who "lead very busy lives".

He believes this is the first such iPhone application for a university in the UK.

Keeping track

"At the beginning of term you're always being stopped by students asking for directions, now they're going to have the information they need in their pockets," says Mr Ahern.

"As they roam around the campus they can get information about lecture theatres, places to eat and libraries," he says.

The mobile phone service links to an alternative student guide, written by fellow students, and can also access student union services, such as letting students book tickets for bands.

Students are increasingly likely to be studying part-time - or to have term-time jobs - and Mr Ahern says that a mobile phone is a convenient way for the university to keep in touch with busy people in many different locations.

"It's a different track for reaching students," says Mr Ahern.

But he says that there is a question about the lack of access for students who do not have iPhones - and although not wrapped into a single package, the same information can be accessed through laptops and other mobiles which can access the internet.

The university has just invested a £1m in laptops and online access for students who cannot afford their own computers, he says.

The iPhone "applications" are customised information services which can be downloaded onto this type of mobile phone.

It has been estimated that there will be 100,000 applications available by the end of the year, with 1.8 billion having been downloaded so far.

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**C0FFINCASE** · 22 Nov. 2009 03:29am

There is a class at the university in town that require you to have an iphone to be in them.
They don't supply it either you have to buy one ad get it on a service then buy like a dozen apps. Technology is getting ridiculous.

22 Nov. 2009 07:39pm

So is my school.

**Blix** · 22 Nov. 2009 11:05pm

Originally Posted by C0FFINCASE

There is a class at the university in town that require you to have an iphone to be in them.
They don't supply it either you have to buy one ad get it on a service then buy like a dozen apps. Technology is getting ridiculous.

What if you had a itouch.

**Arcanine** · 23 Nov. 2009 01:30am

Originally Posted by Blix

What if you had a itouch.

They're pretty much the same, so I think they'd let you. :/

**Tobi** · 23 Nov. 2009 10:53pm

Wow that would be helpful but youd think they might have to supply it or something i meen thats alot of money comeing out of your pocket plus the money you alredy have to pay....

23 Nov. 2009 10:56pm

My school has an iPhone ap but i have a different kind of phone, one that i totally jail broke and made it way better than an iphone.

24 Nov. 2009 03:02pm

Technology has been changing to much. I cant keep up now. I need to buy windows 7 laptop now >.> I need no phone or app

24 Nov. 2009 03:25pm

My school has an iphone app where you can keep up with your homework >.<

**Tobi** · 24 Nov. 2009 05:05pm

Originally Posted by l3ouncy

My school has an iphone app where you can keep up with your homework >.<

Wow there really trying to make it so there is no exuses to miss out on homework to....I belive that you shouldent be aloud to do homework because its the teachers job to teach you during school time giveing you stuff to do at home is like an easy way out for them they give you stuff to do at home so they dont have to teach you as much in the long run....thats just my thought though...

26 Nov. 2009 10:01pm

Originally Posted by SwiftPnoy

A university is offering a free iPhone application it has developed
to help students starting their first term.

Students will be able to check
maps of their university town

The University of Central Lancashire in Preston says the mobile phone service will provide maps and details of entertainment and local transport.

There will also be details of campus facilities and access to students' university e-mail accounts.

Director of learning, Michael Ahern, say this will help connect with students who "lead very busy lives".

He believes this is the first such iPhone application for a university in the UK.

Keeping track

"At the beginning of term you're always being stopped by students asking for directions, now they're going to have the information they need in their pockets," says Mr Ahern.

"As they roam around the campus they can get information about lecture theatres, places to eat and libraries," he says.

The mobile phone service links to an alternative student guide, written by fellow students, and can also access student union services, such as letting students book tickets for bands.

Students are increasingly likely to be studying part-time - or to have term-time jobs - and Mr Ahern says that a mobile phone is a convenient way for the university to keep in touch with busy people in many different locations.

"It's a different track for reaching students," says Mr Ahern.

But he says that there is a question about the lack of access for students who do not have iPhones - and although not wrapped into a single package, the same information can be accessed through laptops and other mobiles which can access the internet.

The university has just invested a £1m in laptops and online access for students who cannot afford their own computers, he says.

The iPhone "applications" are customised information services which can be downloaded onto this type of mobile phone.

It has been estimated that there will be 100,000 applications available by the end of the year, with 1.8 billion having been downloaded so far.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | iPhone app for fresher students

sounds cool if i were only in college ..

**Oharo - kun** · 27 Nov. 2009 02:40pm

Crazy technology -.-
Only makes things and stuffs ridiculous. -.-

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