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Adelaide science faculty gives all 1st year students an iPad and only uses electronic text books.  Have redesigned the curriculum  and getting very positive results. Book costs for students have dropped to 60% of what they were and the uni is looking to move entirely to free online resources.

"TWELVE fifth-year medical students have admitted to taking screen grabs of questions in a University of Adelaide exam."

Adelaide Uni change from large lectures to small class teaching.

"TRADITIONAL textbooks will be put on the endangered list next year as the University of Adelaide's Faculty of Science becomes the first tertiary institution to embrace a new approach to online learning." Ahh you need an iPad to do elearning in science, that's the problem.

Ambitious plan @UniofAdelaide to replace large lectures with small group teaching, in part enabled by e-learning http://t.co/DozwtBQj01

Ambitious plan @UniofAdelaide to replace large lectures with small group teaching, in part enabled by e-learning http://t.co/DozwtBQj01

Some students took pictures of exam papers and left them for others to see.

Go Apple - The University of Adelaide intends to replace undergraduate science textbooks with iPad versions from next year onwards.

Professor Geoffrey Crisp (University of Adelaide, Australia) presents a webinar on the changes in the student learning environment afforded by Web 2.0 and leads a discussion on why assessment practices need to change in response to these new learning environments.

Adelaide help pages for Google Apps.