iPad For Higher Education

  posted by admin 31 October 2011

We have had lots of discussion this week regarding the potential for the iPad in a University environment.  The potential is clearly exciting, and a huge transformation in the classroom experience seems to be directly upon us.  Several universities have made a pr mark out of announcing that they will be giving their students iPads directly in September when the next classes arrive.

For Universities, the big opportunity is integrating course content into an awesome dynamic classroom experience, combining live lecture, interactive text books, note taking, video, and chat.  Students will be able to follow guided lectures, with dynamic text books, chat questions, etc.  Outside of the classroom the opportunity to replay lectures, integrated directly into the text book, and link to additional faculty research and publishing all works together to maximize the massive amounts of intellectual content most Universities struggle to package for their students.

While the first generation iPad makes all of these palatable, the possibilities posed by the very next generation of tablets, with video, etc., are huge. There have been several articles on the subject, the best from WIRED .  And a great video demo of the interactive text book on iPad: