Pervasive Computing: The Cause for Including Mobile Application Development in Undergraduate IS Curriculum

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Author(s): Kathryn A. Marold (Metropolitan State College of Denver, USA)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 2
Source title: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology
Source Editor(s): Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-929-8.ch228
ISBN13: 9781599049298
EISBN13: 9781466665378

Keywords: Engineering Science Reference / IT Research & Theory / IT Research and Theory / Library & Information Science

Abstract

Mobile computing capabilities has contributing to what Bergeron has referred to as the “pervasive computing” society. Small wireless devices from PDA’s to cell phones has fulfilled the promise of ATAP (any time, any place) computing. This change in computing habits dictates a necessary change in the Information Systems curricula of institutions of higher education. This is an account of how instruction in wireless smart device application development was introduced into an undergraduate computer information systems major curriculum.

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