Ohio State’s Mobile Design Lab puts digital skills on the move
April 17, 2019
The Ohio State University’s Digital Flagship initiative is hitting the road.
A shiny, black recreational vehicle was parked in front of the Recreation and Physical Activity Center. The RV packs enough horsepower to crisscross the Buckeye state in comfort. But it’s intellectual muscle that really powers the new Mobile Design Lab.
“It’s a 34-foot bus that we’ll be able to take to all of our campuses and do outreach across the state around design thinking, mobile app development, coding, and how to use technology in teaching and learning as a student, as a professor or staff,” said Director of Learning Programs & Digital Flagship Cory Tressler. “So it’s really a physical, mobile design space for us, but also an outreach vehicle to educate everybody in our community.”
Digital Flagship is the university’s digital learning initiative to support educational innovation for students. The rollout of iPads to first-year students across the Columbus and regional campuses was one part of a larger effort to support student success through technology.