A senior lecturer at Robert Gordon University will today address over 100 teachers and academics at Apple Inc’s Education IT Summit at the University of Oxford.
Gordon Eccleston is responsible for teaching iOS development to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
He has been invited to deliver a lecture at the Summit on the use of iPhone and iOS programming technology in the Higher Education curriculum. iOS, Apple’s mobile operating system, supports devices such as the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and is the basic software that allows applications to run.
Mr Eccleston said: “The teaching at the School of Computing reflects the growing industry need for app programming skills in new graduates and has been integrated into our degree courses via modules and practical projects. We aim to further the education process by helping our students gain expertise in using these apps and learning technologies to ensure they are skilled in these systems going into the workplace."
Apple’s App Store contains more than 550,000 iOS applications, which have been collectively downloaded more than 25 billion times.
Over the past two years, Mr. Eccleston has been involved in developing iPhone apps for a variety of external organisations including the NHS, local SME’s and Aberdeen City Council.
Representatives from Apple Worldwide Education in the US recently visited the School of Computing ahead of the Summit to meet with academics and students, view the teaching facilities and tour the Apple labs at the School where the work of students in iPhone development was showcased.
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