Students will have attended an induction workshop where they will learn how to use the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) employed for the study of this module. Subsequently students will work through the module material provided on the VLE at a pace suggested within the VLE for the module. The material will include activities and review questions that allow students to assimilate the concepts and skills required by the module. Students will be encouraged to discuss relevant aspects within discussion forums that are part of the VLE. The forums will allow discussion with a student's peer group as well as the module tutor.

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Wireless J2ME Platform Programming, Vartan Piroumian, 2002, Sun Microsystems, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130449148
Core J2ME Technology and MIDP, John W Muchow, 2002, Sun Microsystems, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 01306996113
Wireless Internet and Mobile Business - How to Program, Dietel et al. 2002, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130092886
Business Agility: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage through Mobile Based Solutions, Nicholas D Evans, 2001,Financial Times Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130668370
Survival @ E-Speed: Transformation Guide for Profitable Internet and Mobile Business, Peter Morath, 2001, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0077098382
Mobile Business Strategies: Understanding the Technologies and Opportunities, Jouni Paavilainen, 2002, Addison Wesley Professional, ISBN: 0201788985
Mobile Commerce - Opportunities, Applications and Technologies of Wireless Business, Paul May, 2001, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 052179756X
.Net Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic.Net, Paul Yao and David Durant, Addison Wesley, 2004, ISBN: 0321174046
Writing Mobile Code, Ivo Salmre, Addison Wesley, 2005, ISBN: 0321269314

Material on Blackboard.
Access to the on-line library, journals and web-based resources
Appropriate mobile software development kits/environments as advised by academic staff
Staffordshire University has subscriptions to electronic book services such as Safari Tech Books, Ebrary and Netlibrary. There are titles in each of the collections that will support students studying mobile computing. Staffordshire University has subscriptions to IEEExplore, ACM Digital Library, Elsevier Science Direct and Infotrac Computer Daatabase all offering full text electronic access to journals and conference proceedings.

Applications programming for mobile devices
A critical study of key application areas for which mobile computing provides a supporting infrastructure.
Key mobile computing technologies
Design issues for mobile systems
Database issues in mobile computing
Mobile Systems integration

Coursework - 50% (Learning outcomes 1 and 2)
The coursework will be based on a case study that will require you to design and implement a mobile application to satisfy specified functional objectives.

A final assignment weighted at 50% with an associated mandatory viva voce. (Learning outcomes 3 and 4)
The assignment will take the form of answers to all questions on an examination paper. Students are required to participate in a viva to verify the work is their own. The examination paper would normally be set to be completed in 2 hours under examination conditions, but for e-learning students they will need to take longer as they will need to answer all the questions on the paper.