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The challenge
The challenge for MACON was to address the difficulties involved in delivering quality academic content to mobile devices in a seamless and user-friendly manner through a resource discovery interface. The purpose of the project was to explore the possibilities and share … Continue reading
Background
The Open University is the biggest university in the UK with more than 260,000 students. We are a distance learning university, so very few of our students ever visit the library building in person. Only our ~1200 full time research students … Continue reading
Developing simpler authentication for mobile users
One of the deliverables of this project is a “mobile bookmarklet tool”, which is intended to help address the difficulty of entering a complex password into a mobile keyboard. The difficulties encountered tend to be with accessing special characters and … Continue reading
What is MACON?
MACON will address challenges involved in delivering quality academic content to mobile devices in a seamless and user-friendly manner. The project will work with EBSCO, a major content and systems provider in order to prototype a mobile friendly resource discovery interface … Continue reading