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Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education
By admin | January 29, 2010
Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education
Tablet-style computers could be game-changers for colleges, bringing in a new era of classroom collaboration and pushing the adoption of electronic textbooks over a tipping point. Today’s announcement by Apple Inc. of the iPad tablet has education watchers predicting a wave of student purchases, major textbook publishers rejoicing, and at least one college saying it will consider giving them to all incoming students.
But wait — it might be time to take a deep breath to let the
Topics: Education |