Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able to
- differentiate the app ecosystem and their pros and cons
- describe the key technologies to develop applications for the major mobile platforms
- identify and apply a systematic approach for mobile app design
- implement app ideas with design principles: user experience (UX), user-centered design and mobile constraints
- work in a team to generate mobile app wireframe and paper prototype
- configure and use a development environment for a chosen mobile platform
- develop a simple mobile application prototype

Teaching methods

Feature of the course:
o This study unit is FULLY ONLINE learning with the possibilities of volunteer tutoring meetings with the teachers.
o The tutoring meetings are not compulsory. Any student can participate tutoring meeting if they need any help from teachers.
o Student can learn from anywhere on own time with weekly learning target (weekly modules) and deadlines.

Training materials:
o Video based training. In addition, presentation slides provided, reading material and other resources are also provided. Step-by-step process of building mobile applications
o Finally, there are many courses on mobile application development, this course is one of very few that offers designing and development of mobile application development..

Location and time

o Fully online studies: Not dependent on place or time (virtual studies).
o Starting from Week-36 and ends on Week-48 (Complete weekly schedule will be provided to eligible and accepted students).

Learning materials and recommended literature

In this course, you will learn two most important aspects of Mobile Applications Development:

1) Mobile Applications Design: The structured approach and science of designing a mobile application.
2) Mobile Applications Development: Step-by-step demonstration and learning a simple and basic cross-platform mobile applications development with Ionic 3 framework.

Alternative completion methods of implementation

There is a possibility of taking final hands-on practical test and project work to demonstrate learnign outcomes. Contact teacher for more details.

Co-operation with working life and/or RDI

Laurea announces certain possibilities along the study unit offering based on demand from our partner companies.

Important dates

Students can collect points with weekly or biweekly learning activities, assignments and 2 tests.

Forms of internationality

Teachers and students group are international (Finnish and English degree programme students). We are also partnering with ICT companies for projects.

Students workload

Kindly notice following carefully before registering for the study unit. This is a technical and professional training study unit and it requires regular weekly learning effort.
5 credits | Total 137.5 hours of student learning time | 8-10 hours per week

Content and scheduling

o Study unit starts on week 36
o Study unit ends on week 48
# Detailed schedule is released at the beginning of the study unit
NOTE: There can be minor scheduling changes.

Further information for students

Prerequisite of the course:

o An understanding of Fundamentals of programming, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript can greatly benefit your learning experience.
o We don’t recommend this course if someone lacking know-how on programming principles, HTML and CSS.
Know-how of JavaScript is not ultimate requirement.

Grading scale

H-5

Evaluation methods and criteria

Student can collect points with online learning, online assignments and 1 online test and 1 classroom test. Following are evaluation components (more details in next tabs):

o Online Assignments (40%) - Weekly or biweekly assignments
o Online Test-1(30%)
o Online Test-2(30%)
o Final retake/retest also offered at Laurea premise (classroom test at theend of semester)

Evaluation criteria, fail (0)

0-39 points: 0

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

40-50 points: 1
51-60 points: 2

Evaluation criteria, good (3-4)

61-70 points: 3
71-80 points: 4

Evaluation criteria, excellent (5)

81-100 points: 5