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  • PC Mag reports that over 1.5 million are in use in educational institutions (bet it’s a lot more than that).  Boston’s NPR station reports that over 600 districts have ditched textbooks and purchased iPads for all students.
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  • the market for interactive textbooks is taking off (Kno, one of the biggest publishers of e-textbooks, has compiled enough data from extensive use of its platform to publish data on student effectiveness), iPads are everywhere, the Kindle Fire is seeing significant adoption, and Google's Nexus 7 already has solid retail and pre-order traction outside of the technorati who usually represent Google early adopters.
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  • Very low level of development of learning assets specifically for mobile devices.
  • Just-in-time knowledge: Short bursts of information and learning assets that can be consumed anywhere in just a few minutes.
  • Moderate to high levels of technology frustration in making learning assets fully viewable and optimized on devices — Flash on an iPad, for example.
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  • Lagging levels of mobile readiness from many learning management systems.
  • Mobile-only functions:
  • E-books on steroids: Take much of our current e-learning and pour it into a dynamic e-book, which combines content, collaboration, assessment and performance support.
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  • Thirty percent of those reading electronic content and 40  percent of those who have owned an eReader device for a year or more say they read more.
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  • The new taxonomy also identifies four sub-categories that are appearing, namely the Station-Rotation, Lab-Rotation, Flipped-Classroom, and Individual-Rotation models.
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  • i-Ready.com from Curriculum Associates, is a great K-8 adaptive assessment with engaging content.
  • Dreambox.com is a K-3 game-based adaptive math product.
  • ST Math from MIND Research Institute is a visual game-based approach used with great results in over 1,200 schools; ST Math is now available on iPad. They are launching their Seattle Math Initiative this Wednesday
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  • Mangahigh.com is a games-based online math resource that hosts some 70 million math questions answered per month.  Check out Tangled Web—a complementary angles game or watch a video.
  • ReasoningMind.com, based on the Russian curriculum with a pretty good adaptive engine and a lot of support from the Hoglund Foundation.
  • CK12.com, famous for dozens of free math and science textbooks, is now an OER object library.   FlexMath.org is becoming a very cool adaptive product—stay tuned for more.
  • Hippocampus has solid high school math and science content.  NROCmath.org previews an exciting developmental math sequence.
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  • The Pearson Foundation sponsored the second-annual survey, which asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about their tablet ownership.
  • One-fourth of the college students surveyed said they owned a tablet, compared with just 7 percent last year. Sixty-three percent of college students believe tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years—a 15 percent increase over last year’s survey. More than a third said they intended to buy a tablet sometime in the next six months.
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  • 1. It has been predicted that 44 percent of college textbooks will be digital by 2017. 2. Florida is making K-12 textbooks completely digital by 2015. 3. Even the federal government is taking a strong stance — it released the “Digital Textbook Playbook” to show districts why and how they should make the move toward e-textbooks. 4. The transition to digital content is undeniably taking place in classrooms and on campuses, and will only accelerate in coming years.
  • 2012 Q2 Special Report: The Textbook Reformation & Digital Content
  • Converge 2012 Q2 Special Report Supplement: Funding and Professional Development
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