A year long pilot program in four California schools will place 400 iPads in the hands of middle school students. Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt worked with Apple to develop the app called “HMH Fuse: Algebra 1” for the program. The math […]
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Ball State University’s Center for Media Design recently released a followup study to “Touching Consumers? The Promise of the iPad,” where they interviewed fifteen “average consumers” to get their reaction to the iPad before its launch. Ten of the original participants took part in […]
Ball State Study – Interviewing Average Consumers about the iPad
I wrote recently about iPad initiatives at a number of colleges and universities. Article 1. Article 2. Article 3. We now add to that list Notre Dame. The Notre Dame News has the story of assistant professor of management Corey Angst, who is leading […]
iPads in Higher Education – Notre Dame
Two recent articles highlight stories and explorations of using iPads to help autistic children. The first is by Ashley Harrell, writing for SF Weekly. She tells the story of the Rosa family and their autistic son Leo in iHelp for Autism. […]
iPads Shows Promise for Helping Autistic Children
To the list of colleges and universities from my previous posts here and here, we add Stanford, Oklahoma Christian University, Long Island University, Northwest Kansas Technical College, and Chicago State University. This article from today’s Huffington Post covers 11 colleges and universities with iPad initiatives. Each schools […]
iPads in Higher Education – More College and University Projects, ...
Following a successful launch this summer, Rutgers University in New Jersey is offering an MBA certificate program in Digital Marketing this fall. All students in the program receive an iPad preloaded with program materials. Customized iPads contain required reading material, including cases, articles […]