The author, Ryan Faas, believes that the most important way the iPad is impacting education is by engaging students on a very personal level, and offering them different ways to learn that meet their unique learning needs. He notes the superiority of iPads to textbooks, and discusses electronic textbooks, MOOCS (massive online open courses), and two education-specific reference and resource sites: Khan Academy and Lynda.com, both of which have iPad apps. He discusses the flipped classroom, which uses class time for discussion, and homework time for viewing videos and listening to educational audio material.