What is the Mobility Initiative?
The Mobility Initiative is an effort sponsored by the Office of the Sr. Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, and the Office of Information Technology intended to enhance the student education experience at the University of Maryland. It is a pilot program that examines the role that mobile Internet access devices might have in the future of instruction, learning, and the social growth of students on campus. The pilot for the Initiative began in the Fall 2008 semester. In the 2010-2011 academic year, an additional 205 students will join the 340 students who have participated in the first two years of the pilot. Each year, freshmen in the Banneker/Key Scholarship and Maryland Incentive Awards programs were provided an iPod touch device or, by incurring certain costs (see below), an iPhone 4 to test inside and outside of class. Applications and tools for accessing class schedules, e-mail, phone directory information, location and directio
