20 Mobile Apps

For Higher Education

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1. Animoto• Price: FREE (or monthly fee)• Platform: Windows, iOS, Android

• Provides tools for creating videos, and then downloading or sharing them. Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account with more tools.• https://animoto.com/

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2. Attendance 2• Price: $4.99• Platform: iOS• Attendance app for teachers. Import

names from CSV file or your Contacts and display photos with names. Photos can be taken with the device, imported from Dropbox, or from your Photo library.

• http://www.dave256apps.com/attendance2/

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3. Blackboard Mobile• Price: FREE (or $1.99)• Platform: iOS, Android• Gives students and teachers access

to all aspects of their Blackboard courses on their mobile devices.• http://

help.blackboardmobile.com/

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4. Blogger• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Quickly and easily publish posts to your Blogger blog wherever you are.• http://www.blogger.com

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5. CamScanner• Price: FREE (or $4.99)• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Scan, store, sync, and collaborate on various contents across various devices.

• https://www.camscanner.com/

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6. Canvas• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS, Android

• Teachers and students who use Canvas by Instructure can use this app to access course information from anywhere.

• https://help.instructure.com/home

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7. Dropbox• Price: FREE• Platform: iOS, Android,

Windows

• Bring photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Access any file you save to your Dropbox from all of your devices.• https://www.dropbox.com/

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8. Evernote• Price: FREE• Platform: iOS, Android• Take notes, capture photos, create

to-do lists, record voice reminders, and make them all searchable.

• https://evernote.com/

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9. Flipboard• Price: $19.99• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Collects content from various sources, and presents them in a magazine format.

• https://flipboard.com/

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10. Google Drive• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Provides 5GB of storage to store your files and photos and access them from any device, anywhere.

• https://www.google.com/drive/

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11. Kahn Academy• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• A mobile way to view Khan Academy’s library of over 3,500 videos.• https://www.khanacademy.org/

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12. Kindle• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Read books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs, with access to over 1,000,000 books, newspapers and magazines.

• https://kindle.amazon.com/

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13. LinkedIn• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Mobile access to the business-oriented social networking service.

• https://www.linkedin.com/

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14. My Eyes Only• Price: $14.99• Platform: iOS, Android• Secure password manager - enter

sensitive information and then password protect it behind a securely encrypted wall.• http://www.myeyesonlyapp.com/

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15. Onenote• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Capture thoughts, ideas and to-do's. Snap photos, clip web pages, and share your notes.

• http://www.onenote.com/

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16. Readability• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Turns cluttered web pages into a cleaner view by eliminating all images and extraneous material.

• https://www.readability.com/apps

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17. Socrative• Price: FREE• Platform: iOS, Android• Student smartphones turn into

a response system. Can attach student names to electronic quizzes.

• http://www.socrative.com/apps.php

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18. TED• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• The official TED app presents more than 1,400 talks from some of the world’s most fascinating people.• https://www.ted.com/

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19. Twitter• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android

• Same functions as the regular application, but you can tweet on the go.

• https://twitter.com/

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20. Voicethread• Price: FREE• Platform: Windows, iOS,

Android• Interactive multimedia app for

collaborative communication. Write, draw and record your thoughts on shared documents, images and videos.

• https://voicethread.com/

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Sources

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• Cavender, A. (2012). Favorite apps for work and life. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/favorite-apps-for-work-and-life/42810

• eCampus News Staff. (2013). New: 10 of the best apple and android apps for higher education in 2013. Retrieved from http://www.ecampusnews.com/business-news/new-10-of-the-best-apple-and-android-apps-for-higher-education-in-2013/

• Savenije, D. (2013). 23 mobile apps educators should watch in 2013. Retrieved from http://www.educationdive.com/news/23-mobile-apps-educators-should-watch-in-2013/80447/

• Williams, G. (2014). 40 android apps for teaching and learning. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/40-android-apps/55769