What Students Want in Their Mobile Application (01/27/2012)

In the past year, technology staff at The Ohio State University have formed an unprecedented partnership with students to deliver a mobile application called OSU Mobile, designed to meet a wide range of student needs.  In this Digital Union session, collaborators from the OCIO, Student Life, and University Communications discussed surveying students to understand their needs, engaging them in development work, and partnering with students to test the application.

View an Adobe Connect recording of the session.

Facilitator Information

Steve Fischer
Associate Director, Student Life IT
Stephen heads up Application Development in Student Life. Prior to this he was a web developer in Geriatrics & Gerontology at OSU. He’s married and has 2 young children.

James Burgoon
Senior Web Developer, University Communications
James manages day-to-day operations of the main osu.edu website. His background includes web design as well as web development. Prior to coming to Ohio State James worked in marketing. He’s married and enjoys his dogs, skiing, and well-designed automobiles.

Glenn Donaldson
Senior Application Architect, OCIO
Glenn works in the Enterprise Application Strategy and Architecture area in the Office of the CIO (OCIO),  He provides leadership in application architecture and integration, specifically in middleware and web technologies. This includes data, application, and service integration. He also serves as technical subject-matter expert to OCIO Infrastructure and Enterprise Application teams. He oversaw many of the enterprise systems application development activities specifically the student information system(s).  He formerly worked in the Office of the Registrar where his long web career/involvement began.  He’s married with 2 young children.