Thuze: The Interactive Mobile Learning Solution (Industry Showcase)

Type x BLOCKINWorkshop  Tutorial Duration x BLOCKINHalf‐day BLOCKINevent  Full‐day BLOCKINevent Rationale (to be published on the mLearn web‐site) Thuze (www.thuzelearning.com) is a cloud-based learning platform that delivers advanced classroom content to its users. At the core of Thuze's effectiveness is its peer-driven etextbook experience, which underwrites the success of mobile and contextual elearning with classroom interaction. Buttressed by its comprehensive content package – including traditional text, audio, and video as well as self-assessment diagnostic tools – Thuze delivers students a complete learning experience, across a variety of devices, including the iPad, Android, Kindle, desktops and laptops. Providing this comprehensive mobile learning experience to modern students has been a prime motivator behind Bridgepoint Education's development of mobile learning technology. The aggressive program of innovation and improvement of classroom connectivity, content and participation for all its learners and faculty. It is in this atmosphere that Thuze has taken shape. With the introduction of its innovative digital learning platform to Ashford's students and instructors (under the name Constellation), Bridgepoint provided Ashford students and faculty with full-spectrum content (including video, audio and lectures), collaborative notes, cross-platform flexibility and a fully supported online discussion environment (comprehensive content and the accessibility of its platform were designed specifically to meet the needs of Ashford University, and provided the essential starting point to develop and deliver Thuze as a mobile content platform for schools and universities worldwide. The Thuze platform's mobile etextbooks are available to students via the iPad, Kindle and other tablet devices. Its functionality is designed to make the learning experience equally valuable through these mobile interfaces, delivering students and faculty the same cloud-based notes, classroom interaction, personalized quizzes and study guides of desktop and laptop users. In addition to the features available to all Thuze users, mobile access to Thuze gives tablet users a tactile interface unavailable on a desktop, providing full-spectrum fingertip interaction. Thuze's cross-platform multi-device flexibility provides students and instructors access to their learning content and to classmates from any device, at any time. Thuze in context: Cloud-Based Mobility: The crown jewel of the online classroom experience: Thuze makes its suite of cross-platform learning tools modular, flexible and mobile, from desktop to laptop, iPad to Kindle.