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whitepaper Learning Without Boundaries: A University for the 21st Century0000-00-00 Higher Education Funding Council for England
  The widening participation agenda will increase diversity among the student population, with more students coming into universities without formal qualifications. Increasingly, they will have substantial part time jobs in order to fund their education. The issue of retention will consequently be significant, and technology-based solutions will be required to deliver learning and support wherever students are, whenever they want it. Every student receives on enrolment a personal fourth generation handheld device, including PDA and phone functionality, the costs of which are covered in part by tuition fees and in part by sponsorship. When a student arrives at the campus, the student's identity is beamed to the desktop from the handheld.

Tags: Wireless LAN, Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper iBook Laptops Help Students Improve Writing Scores0000-00-00 Apple Computer
  The Peace River North School District encompasses rural, semi-rural and urban areas with a population of 5908 students, served by 20 schools of varying sizes. The district ranges from the one-county schoolhouse to an ultra modern senior secondary school with more than 850 students. Given the diverse school population, the challenge for the district's educators was to assist teachers in motivating their students to improve their writing skills. In February 2002, the Peace River North School District spearheaded the launch of a Wireless Writing Program that initially gave sixth- and seventh-grade students in five classrooms constant access to their own iBook laptops to use throughout the school year.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Internet Operations Center Case Study: Pontiac Schools-Wireless Network0000-00-00 Internet Operations Center
  Pontiac Schools needed to design a system to allow teachers to create/grade quizzes, pass out homework assignments and communicate with parents using a PDA. A major drawback to most programs is that each student must individually synchronize the PDA via infra-red "beaming" technology. With large numbers of students per classroom, individual beaming is not feasible. IOC needed to architect a system that would allow anyone, from anywhere in the classroom, to send and receive data concurrently.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Apple Computer Case Study: Hampton City Schools0000-00-00 Apple Computer
  One of the oldest cities in Virginia, Hampton is experiencing the challenges faced by many urban school districts. A large number of the city's 23,000 K - 12 students fall into the at-risk category. Access to technology tools at home is limited. With Apple's help, a long-term plan was put together for a phased rollout of the iBook laptop initiative. Some 260 teachers and students at Lindsay Middle School received the first batch of the wireless iBook laptops in the 2001 - 2002 school year.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Apple Computer Case Study: Wilson Elementary School0000-00-00 Apple Computer
  Knowing the background of Wilson's students makes the story all the more remarkable. Of the nearly 700 students in the school, 98 percent are Hispanic, 54 percent are English language learners, and 92 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. In this rural community near Fresno, California many of the students' parents, who are primarily farm workers, have had little formal education. In most families, the annual household income is approximately $12,000. But listen to a presentation from the Wilson students for only a moment, and one thing is immediately apparent: These kids are going places. Their passport' A new laptop initiative, made possible with iBook Wireless Mobile Labs from Apple.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper State of Victoria Case Study: Ivoclar Vivadent0000-00-00 State of Victoria
  Since 1975, Ivoclar Vivadent Australia has supplied dentists with dental composites, materials and equipment products used in the dental practices and research laboratory. In May 2003, handheld Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) were issued to 24 sales representatives to collect orders from dentists on-site. Prior to the introduction of the handheld personal digital assistants, sales representatives would verbally phone through orders via mobile phone. Ivoclar Vivadent Australia licensed the mPower mobile software solution and purchased 24 handheld PDA's which were Bluetooth enabled.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Bluetooth		   
whitepaper Medical Clinic of North Texas Case Study0000-00-00 Netopia
  The Medical Clinic of North Texas is a dynamic physicians group located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area known as the Metroplex. MCNT offers expert medical care in the areas of family practice, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics. The clinic dispenses 24-hour access cards to its patients to connect them to the Wi-Fi network - replacing tattered magazines with cutting-edge technology. Using Netopia's Wi-Fi Hot Spot solution to envelop its waiting rooms in Wi-Fi, the medical group is redefining customer service in its 24 regional clinics.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wi-Fi (802.11)		   
whitepaper Mobile Learning and Teaching With PDAs: Dewsbury College, Thomas Danby College and Bishop Burton College0000-00-00 Higher Education Funding Council for England
  Dewsbury College of Further and Higher Education and Thomas Danby College support predominantly urban multicultural communities in West Yorkshire. Both colleges make extensive use of community- and work-based outreach centres. Bishop Burton College offers a range of land-based courses and is a Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) in agriculture. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have been used at Bishop Burton College across the curriculum in workshop training and fieldwork, while Dewsbury College has trialled the use of PDAs in outreach centres with an NVQ Level 3 course in early years childcare and education.

Tags: Portable Computers, Online - Distance Education		   
whitepaper Changing to a Wireless World: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College0000-00-00 Higher Education Funding Council for England
  Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College (EHWLC) is a large further education college formed from the merger of two colleges in 2002. It operates across four main centres in Southall, Ealing, Acton and Hammersmith, as well as in a range of community and business locations. Mobile and wireless technologies are seen as an important part of the college's long term ILT strategy, which includes a commitment to the development of a Managed Learning Environment (MLE) and its use by all learners and tutors. The college is in the final stage of a three year programme, by the end of which all sites will be fully wireless.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper Two Billion Dollar Distributor Extends Enterprise Data to Its Mobile Sales Force0000-00-00 Defywire
  A two billion dollar distributor of information systems and services wanted to provide their sales organization with up-to-the-minute information on product pricing and availability, while the sales people were out in the field in front of their customers. With rapidly changing inventories, it was important that this information be real-time, vs. synchronized. A push-based architecture would enable salespeople to be apprised of rapidly changing business conditions without having to ask for information. The customer chose Defywire Mobility Suite because it addressed all of these needs through one secure, reliable wireless infrastructure.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Mobile - Wireless Communications