This document discusses mobile communication strategies for supporting online students. It provides statistics showing high percentages of teens and college students owning cell phones and using text messaging as their primary form of communication. It encourages considering how mobile technology can help support students more efficiently and effectively, and developing a mobile communication strategy to do so. It closes by quoting that technology doesn't matter for learning as much as structure, and information alone is not knowledge.

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Mobile Online
Support Strategies
Jason Rhode, Ph.D.
jrhode@niu.edu
@jrhode

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3. A day in the life

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A day in the life
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53. a student’s
A day in the life

54. Students today...

55. 75%
of 12-17 year-olds
own cell phones
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56. 50%
of teens send
50 or more
text messages a day
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57. 30%
of teens send
100 or more
text messages a day
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58. 99.8%
of college students
own one or more
cell phones
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59. 53%
of phone-owning students
have smart phones
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61. 97%
of students use
text messaging
as their main form of
communication
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62. 31%
of U.S. adults prefer
to be reached by
text message
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63. Closing Thoughts...

64. Mobile communication
is’t a fad and isn’t going
away...

65. People today expect to
work, learn, and study
whenever and
wherever they want

66. How can mobile
technology help you be
more efficient and
effective in your support
of online students?

67. What might your mobile
communication strategy
entail?

68. “Information is not
knowledge”
~ Albert Einstein

69. “When it comes to
learning, technology
doesn’t matter, but
structure does”
~ Eric Wignall

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