UC San Diego First Public University to Provide Its Own iPhone Application
A top-10 educational download for iPhone this week
The University of California, San Diego this week became the first public university in the nation to offer an iPhone application that provides mobile access to the latest information about its courses, faculty, athletics and even videos from the university’s YouTube channel.
The free application will be most helpful to students, who will be able to touch the screen of an iPhone or iPod Touch to access a wide variety of information about UC San Diego, including current and next-quarter course listings, an interactive campus map that pinpoints the location of each course’s classroom, and the ability to telephone, email or send a text message to instructors teaching any course of interest.
“It’s going to provide so much information in such a sleek interface that it’s going to add a whole new dimension to students’ day-to-day experiences on campus,” said Elazar C. Harel, assistant vice chancellor of administrative computing and telecommunications at UC San Diego. “By the end of the year, many of the students will also be able to use the application on a wider variety of handheld devices and use those devices to listen to audio podcasts of previous lectures while they’re going to that day’s class.”
Information about this application and download instructions can be found at http://iphone.ucsd.edu. By the end of 2009, a Blackberry equipped with multi-touch capabilities will operate the same application.
The new application was developed for UC San Diego in only two months by TerriblyClever Design, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup company formed by two Stanford University undergraduate students. Harel said the TerriblyClever team was able to make a variety of improvements to an iPhone application that had been developed previously for Stanford and Duke University.
“Students are excited about the new application and their emails and Facebook and Twitter messages have resulted in more than 2,100 downloads of the application the first two days it was available,” said Emily Deere, executive director of the Administrative Computing and Telecommunications Applications Group at UC San Diego. “We were caught off guard when our application shot up to one of the top-10 educational iPhone downloads of the week.” Read More
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