It has now been a year since William Jewell College implemented Jewellverse. The College began providing each student with an iPad, hoping to enhance the learning environment with modern technology. The College has embraced Jewellverse, and iPads are becoming central to the education provided at WJC. “According to a student…
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AFE: Languages Department hacks Jewellverse, removes English from iPad settings
Graphjam.com After weeks of speculation and investigation, school officials are finally close to tracking the culprit behind the infamous iPad language hackings that have rendered the Jewellverse system virtually unusable for non-bilingual students. An informant in on the plan has revealed that the deed is in fact linked to the…
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New York Times student pass boasts great layout, advanced content
New York Times is good for quick news and research, if you don’t mind the ads. William Jewell College Student Senate, the Pryor Leadership Studies Program and Library Services have teamed up for the latest effort to expand the iPad-based “Jewellverse” into the world of news media. Starting this semester,…
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New Jewellverse app enables remote computing
Imagine if you had an app on your iPad that could access any computer on campus and use it just as you would sitting at its desk. Instead of walking across campus on some days through brutal snow or pouring rain, you could use a computer in Marston Hall from…
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Jewellverse, Curry Hall provide research resources for students
Although there is no traditional research library at William Jewell College, there are a wide variety of resources available to students through the Charles F. Curry Library. The stacks on the bottom level of Curry Hall house almost all of the 126,182 physical books in Jewell’s collection, but this is…
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Entering the Jewellverse: A conversation with the president and provost
Interviewer: Let’s talk about the College’s transition to the digital age. We see people walking around the Hill with iPads, but what is the essence of Jewellverse? What all does it encompass? Dema: The aim of Jewellverse is to create an ecosystem of open source learning. There’s not a part…
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