Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses to anyone with an Internet connection.
As protesters took to the streets yesterday to protest the inequality of wealth, two computer scientists in Portland, Oregon are protesting the inequality of resources in schools.
Harvard calls academic journal subscriptions, which can cost up to $40,000, “financially untenable.” So what’s the solution?
A new study shows that students who use iPads in the classroom score better in literacy tests than those who don’t. Educators in Auburn, Maine began instructing 266 kindergarteners using the iPad 2 this fall, and those who used the tablet scored higher on literacy tests and were more enthused about learning.
The class of 2016 was challenged to do something creative with their acceptance packages. One student decided to launch hers 91,000 feet straight up.
I should know better than to look at a new Apple creation and call it an outright failure. The company’s batting average is too high lately. There’s not a lot of room for nay-saying. Still, I think a dose of skepticism doesn’t hurt with Apple’s latest announcement of iBooks Textbooks, a platform for publishing interactive, digital textbooks on the iPad.
Apple debuted the holy grail of textbooks on Thursday in New York City. The books are undeniably cool: they will integrate videos, photos and interactive graphics, make taking notes a breeze and be easy to navigate — all features that will undoubtedly make Apple’s textbooks more enjoyable and engaging to students than the current dead tree versions. But the problem Apple ignored in their announcement is how to actually get their reinvented textbooks into the hands of students.
Apple held an event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York today. The company’s number one initiative: “Reinventing the textbook,” said SVP of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller.
Join us at 10am Eastern for live coverage of Apple’s education event being held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York!
If the rumors are true, Apple’s foray into textbooks might look very similar to how it currently sells apps, music, movies and regular e-books – let other people create the content, and then take a cut of what’s sold from inside Apple’s marketplace. Quick and easy creation of that content is the tricky part, though, and it’s what Apple’s expected to address at the announcement.
We’ll be there (and live-blogging) at Apple’s “education event” this Thursday, Jan. 19 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, but the scuttlebutt going in has Cupertino announcing a platform to — wait for it — “digitally destroy” textbooks.
