Mobile Education App during COVID
summary
Over 50% of students lack laptops so a lightweight mobile channel is essential; a Shiny app (shinymobile) with cognitoR auth is deployed as a PWA then wrapped for Play Store, later rebuilt as a native Flutter/Dart app with Firebase backend, R analyses behind a Plumber API, and email reports via blastula. Three rapid iterations (emergency alpha in <1 week, April alpha, Aug 2021 beta) produce analytics that reliably predicted course completion after 3 weeks and reveal scalability limits when many users hit the Shiny server. 50% lacked laptops
AI-written summary · about
chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:54Learning analytics in pandemic
- 2:00First feedback tool
- 3:24Shiny mobile app
- 5:39Android wrapper limits
- 6:44Research results
- 8:08Language model challenges
- 9:17Beta with Flutter
- 10:20Content recommendations
- 11:24Instructor feedback
related talks
55mThe Future of the Mobile Web
30mTesting Mobile Web Apps on Real Devices: How Fortune 100 companies do it
43mThe Mobile Web: MIA
31mMobile-friendly web apps with Angular
05mThe Great Convergence with React
27mReal Time Shiny Applications
44mTransforming Farmer's Lives Using Android in Kenya
19mWhen the Baby App Crashed: Coding for Chaos (and Parenthood)
