Overview

The MOBILE project at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire aims to develop a mobile/portable software system for delivering hands-on computer intensive educational workshops in any area of computer science and beyond. The project is funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Phase 2 grant awarded in 2008. This project builds on a prior NSF CCLI Phase 1 grant and supplemental grant to develop a laptop-based computer security workshop for computer science instructors (see the CLICS Project.)

The three major goals of the MOBILE project are to:

1. develop a mobile wireless laptop-based computer network management system that can be used in a variety of computer science (and other) educational workshop scenarios and can be quickly installed on participants’ laptop computers from a portable storage device (such as a USB drive) given a minimal subset of memory, disk and software requirements,
2. package this functionality with an easy-to-use interface that can be used by content developers and presenters, and
3. demonstrate the value of this system to educators by presenting mobile hands-on computer science workshop to educators as a demonstration of the power of this system and holding workshops teaching educators how to use this system for their own computer science education workshops.