This winter a group of students, staff and developers from Ohio State visited Apple’s Enterprise Design Lab to develop the framework for an app that would help incoming students transition to college. The app, called ‘Discover’, is now available in the app store and is downloaded automatically on to all iPads distributed through Digital Flagship.
The Drake Union is bustling, full of incoming first-year students and their families arriving for their first day of orientation. This year, the already-exciting day includes another first for new Buckeyes: students and staff in brightly colored Digital Flagship shirts, guiding them through picking up their new iPad Pro and setting up the device, Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil.
This fall, more than 10,000 first-year students will arrive at all five campuses of The Ohio State University with a common set of technology. In May, 78 instructors participated in the first Digital Flagship Educators cohort to learn, collaborate and develop courses that will leverage that new common toolset. Digital Flagship Educators is the instructor-facing component of the broader initiative and strives to establish a connected and supported community of practice among those who teach at Ohio State.
Art, design and technology are undeniably intertwined. This spring, we invite you to consider one possible nexus of creativity and technology: wallpaper images. We are pleased to announce the first annual Digital Flagship iPad Wallpaper Contest...
There’s a part of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters you’ve probably never heard about. Until now. A group of students, administrators and developers recently visited the Apple Enterprise Design Lab to envision a new app for use at the university; making Ohio State the first higher education institution in the United States to do so.
https://carmen-services.it.ohio-state.edu/Events/Event/Details/1285 Digital Flagship, Ohio State’s new digital learning initiative and collaboration with Apple, brings a variety of instructional opportunities; the first iOS Design Center in North America and an incoming class of students united by common technology, to name a few.
Digital Flagship, in collaboration with the University Institute for Teaching and Learning, is pleased to announce the Digital Flagship Educators cohort, a new opportunity for instructors and graduate students teaching general education courses to enrich their lessons with technology.
Shanna Jaggars and Marcos Rivera share their research on the impact of mobile technology on students and learning. Discover what factors can lead to the success (or failure) of deploying tablets in the classroom.
College of Social Work’s Audrey Begun had not been happy with her course’s textbook, and she wanted to find a way to create course materials that were more relevant to her class. By receiving an Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) grant, Begun now...
With more than 300 instructors teaching online across many of university departments, online instruction is on the rise at The Ohio State University. To help break down the institutional silos and cultivate a community of online instructors, the Distance Education Learning and Teaching Academy (...
