ICTP and Mobile Learning

ICTP's Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) is pleased to announce the release of its new, free iPhone application "EyApp".

EyApp enables your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to make a video composed of a series of captured images along with simultaneous audio recording. With just the press of a button, the App automatically captures images at intervals ranging from 5 to 20 seconds (or manually by the user) and then synchronizes the images with a continuous audio signal.

The resulting recording is a smaller size compared with traditional video (HD or standard resolution) because the still frames can be processed by the highly-efficient compression algorithms used by the H264 movie format found in modern mobile i devices.

The film is then ready to be shared immediately or, when saved on a device's photo/movie gallery, can be further edited with other Apps, shared by email and rich-media messaging systems or via social networking Apps, or transferred to a computer. EyApp makes it easy to create personal recording archives as well as to share them via YouTube.

SDU developed the app with education in mind. "With EyApp, students can record a lecture at any time for their own purposes, or for sharing with colleagues or friends, instead of losing attention taking notes on paper," said SDU coordinator Enrique Canessa, who created the app with colleagues Carlo Fonda and Marco Zennaro. He added, "With the EyApp recording available immediately, students no longer need to wait for the appearance of an institutional recording that may or may not be published after some time."

SDU have been pioneers in using mobile technology in new ways to deliver scientific education to the developing world, where about 70% of mobile phone users live. The new EyApp is one of the first applications to create educational content on a mobile phone, and could make a significant impact in regions such as Africa, one of the world's fastest developing e-learning markets.

EyApp is available for download on the iPhone App Store.
 
An Android-based version of Eyapp, named andrEyA, is currently under development. For further information please contact SDU at sdu@ictp.it.