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Elena Ares

iPad replaces uni textbooks at University of Adelaide science faculty | Adelaide Now - 0 views

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      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Textbooks going to the wayside at Uneversity of Adelaide science facility
  • The pilot initiative involves all first-year undergraduate science students next year receiving a free Apple iPad to use with online curriculum, eliminating up to $1000 in annual textbook costs within three years.
  • Our teaching material will be more accessible, more relevant and more frequently updated, providing the flexible learning environment that students are looking for.
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    • Elena Ares
      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Transitioning to things like this is tricky: trying to form lectures around actual textbook while still having students using technology. 
  • Eliminating textbooks will be cost-saving for science students and will make science more available to a wider range of the
  • Becca B. on 13 Mar 12
     
    this website is talking about a school based around science who is no longer using textbooks but is being to base all their teaching on the ipad so their information can be more updated and the students can save up to 1000 dollars in annual textbook costs
Vicki Davis

In South Korean classrooms, digital textbook revolution meets some resistance - The Was... - 1 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 27 Mar 12
     
    South Koreans realize that technology doesn't always bring progress. Not going as ebook as planned according to this washington post article. "But South Korea, among the world's most wired nations, has also seen its plan to digitize elementary, middle and high school classrooms by 2015 collide with a trend it didn't anticipate: Education leaders here worry that digital devices are too pervasive and that this young generation of tablet-carrying, smartphone-obsessed students might benefit from less exposure to gadgets, not more. Those concerns have caused South Korea to pin back the ambition of the project, which is in a trial stage at about 50 schools. Now, the full rollout won't be a revolution: Classes will use digital textbooks alongside paper textbooks, not instead of them. First- and second-graders, government officials say, probably won't use the gadgets at all."
Elena Ares

The B-School Case Study Gets a Digital Makeover - Businessweek - 0 views

www.businessweek.com/...-makeover-07252011_page_2.html

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  • But for ancillary materials—all of the research and items that go with the textbook—students prefer digital,"
  • Hall recalls this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where he had to meet with employees and be accessible to clients on the trade room floor. He had a case study to read, but an open laptop would have been rude and standoffish, he says.
  • Although students could take notes, highlight, and use a dictionary function, some said they were frustrated by the Kindle’s file management system and by an inability to easily skip back and forth between text and exhibits at the end. That’s a far bigger problem when dealing with dozens of case studies—which have numerous exhibits—than with a handful of text books.
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  • the device isn’t great for exercises that require hard data analysis or spreadsheets.
  • they must provide tech support,
  • Regardless of how interactive case studies may become, what won’t change are the analytical and critical thinking skills they impart, Rowe says.
  • Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
     
    Page 2- Students prefer normal textbooks, but prefer digital items with the research that comes along with the textbook
MarkS SVHS

OVERNIGHT TECH: FCC pushes for tablet computers in schools - The Hill's Hillicon Valley - 0 views

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  • MarkS SVHS on 19 Mar 13
     
    The beginning of the news story talks about how schools switching to tablets could save money by using "digital textbooks," rather than out-of-date paper textbooks.
trevor_stone91

The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • trevor_stone91 on 17 Apr 12
     
    Texts books at colleges are becoming to an end because of E-Textbooks. 
amandam_pphs

The Digital Textbook Revolution | iPad in Schools - 1 views

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  • amandam_pphs on 12 Mar 12
     
    "Everything in our world is being digitized (or will be) and it makes sense for text  books to be able to be updated in real time (any time) at a cost that is virtually free rather than the investment it takes to republish and distribute millions of books every few years." This article discusses the use of iPads in the classroom and how they should be replacing textbooks. Since ipads are gesture based, they will be a great addition to a classroom.
alliem_pphs

Learn the Web's core | CoreDogs - 0 views

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  • stephanie jones on 13 Mar 12
     
    This is a platform for creating digital textbooks for blended learning courses.
  • Hayes G. on 13 Mar 12
     
    Coredogs is a platform for creating digital textbooks for blended learning courses. As the students finish their assignments in the books, they will receive information on how they comprehended the knowledge. It also gives the teachers information on how the student behaves.
  • alliem_pphs on 14 Mar 12
     
    Talks about looking at the students past, present and future to do less teaching, and more learning.
Elena Ares

The B-School Case Study Gets a Digital Makeover - Businessweek - 0 views

www.businessweek.com/...digital-makeover-07252011.html

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      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Starting out how tablets are so easy to use instead of sifting through 500 pages to find case studies and course materials
  • Next, Okun unsheathes the alternative: an iPad (AAPL) edition of the same course materials—a feature NYU introduced last year. In each digital case study, students can highlight material in fluorescent colors and take notes. A tap on the screen allows them to skip to an exhibit at the end of a document, and then follow the menu back to where they left off reading—with no virtual or actual page-leafing required. All the features work offline.
  • Over the ensuing 87 years, the case study has undergone some changes but remains much as it was at its inception—a straightforward narrative of business success or failure. Tablet technology may make the case study more of an interactive experience.
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  • arvard Business School, the largest publisher of case studies in North America, is in the process of converting 3,500 of its files to tablet-enhanced formats during this school year and expects to finish converting its library of 17,000 titles by 2013.
  • The tablet medium also seems ideal for simulated cases, says Glenn Rowe, a professor at the Ivey school and author of nearly 40 case studies. In role-playing exercises, prices and other variables can change on the fly. Students may also be smacked with unexpected events, such as their biggest competitor slashing prices, or by their receiving a higher-than-expected counterbid after a merger proposal. Students choose what they would do, and the simulation immediately tells them the consequence of that action.
    • Elena Ares
      Elena Ares on 16 Mar 12
       
      Real world scenarios for the students to learn on  
  • Students are also more inclined to use tablets for supplemental reading. (Assuming prices are the same, 86 percent of college students say they prefer a hard copy textbook to an e-textbook, according to the market research firm Student Monitor.)
Joy Lauer

What We Don't Know About Learning Analytics - 0 views

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  • Long-time e-Literate readers know that I have been a fan of the concept of learning analytics for a number of years now. But it became apparent at this year’s Learning Impact conference that learning analytics are the new hotness. Everybody is talking about them, and increasing numbers of vendors (LMS vendors, ERP vendors, textbook vendors, etc.) are trying to figure out how to get in on the party.
  • Courtney C on 13 Mar 12
     
    things we do not know about learning analytics
  • Joy Lauer on 14 Mar 12
     
    This is an overview of Learning Analytics. It even has a 10 min video about what it is.
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