Monthly Archives: January 2012

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — While K-12 schools around the country search for funding to provide iPads to every student, an education researcher in North Carolina has found that even a single iPad can make a … Continue reading →

Mobile is truly established as a key formfactor that needs to be addressed in so many ways in the higher ed space: “1. Expanding university apps and mobile web Universities around the world have learned the value of mobile devices, … Continue reading →

A year ago, electronic textbook publishers turned down David Johnston’s big idea: the first interactive marine science textbook. Johnston, who runs a marine biology lab at Duke University, wanted the digital tome to show undergraduate students what his scientific field … Continue reading →

Apple’s announcement last week about its new iBooks2 and authoring app created big waves in education circles. But smart educators don’t necessarily need Apple’s slick devices and software to create their own books. How educators think of content curation in … Continue reading →

When Apple announced its textbook initiative on Thursday, there was a rush of excitement among educators. Textbooks from major publishers, which can cost $40 to $75 dollars in print, would be available as interactive e-books for $15 or less. The … Continue reading →

More and more schools are jumping on the digital bandwagon and adopting iPads for daily use in the classroom. Apple’s education-related announcements yesterday will no doubt bolster the trend, making faculty tools and student textbooks more engaging and accessible. Read … Continue reading →

Apple has demonstrated again and again its ability to create and reinvent content marketplaces by designing irresistible devices and platforms–will educational content be its next conquest? Read more… Educational Technology Experts Skeptical About Apple’s iBooks | Fast Company.

GENEVA — A United Nations telecom meeting has approved the next generation of mobile technology, which experts say will make devices 500 times faster than 3G smartphones and eliminate the wait time between the tap of a finger and the … Continue reading →

Computers have certainly aided learning in recent years, but they haven’t yet fostered the promised revolution in education that has been discussed for over 40 years, according to Apple cofounder, educator, and all-around geek Steve Wozniak. Woz made the comments during a keynote … Continue reading →

“Mobile” has sufficiently cemented itself among the buzzwords of 2012. Here’s a look at top trends and predictions for mobile learning in 2012 from industry analysts. Increased proliferation of tablet and smartphones in the market, forcing schools to relent and … Continue reading →

More and more schools are using mobile learning devices to help boost student engagement and achievement, and a new monograph from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) examines some of the best practices in mobile devices from schools across the … Continue reading →

For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) … Continue reading →

by David Parry “The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these … Continue reading →

Here on the last day of the year, I offer my predications for the big and shaping trends we’ll see in the enterprise mobile learning space for 2012.  As in the past, this year’s list includes predictions across a gamut … Continue reading →