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Free Online Courses From Harvard & MIT [AUDIO]
Going to Harvard or MIT can be tough, what with the cost and it being really hard to get in and the moving to Massachusetts and all. How about taking classes from either Harvard or MIT at home on the Internet and it's free and everyone gets in?
That's the idea of Ed X, a new partnership launched by the schools yesterday. Classes start in the fall. Online. Read the rest at Marketplace.
eTextbook Sales Set To Explode [AUDIO]
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By 2010, while national adoption had slowed, growth in broadband adoption among African Americans jumped well above the national average, with 22% broadband adoption growth since the previous year. 12 Even with these gains, however, minorities are still less likely than whites to have home broadband overall. And foreign-born and Spanish-dominant Latinos trail not only whites but also native and English-speaking Latinos. In our August 2011 survey, 62% of all American adults have high-speed internet access at home, including two thirds (66%) of whites and roughly half of African Americans (49%) and Hispanics (51%). Read the rest at Pew Internet & American Life.
Internet User Demographics, 2000 & 2011 [TABLE]
As of 2011, internet use remains strongly correlated with age, education, and household income, which are the strongest positive predictors of internet use among any of the demographic differences we studied. Yet while gaps in internet adoption persist, some have narrowed in the past decade—as shown in the table below. Read the rest at Pew Intenet & American Life.
Demographics Of Local News Consumers [CHART]
As a group, local news enthusiasts differ demographically from others in important ways, in their use of technology, the information that is of particular interest to them, and their local news habits. Demographically, local news enthusiasts are more likely than other adults to be female, age 65 or older, retired, and African-American. Politically, they tend to be conservative in their outlook (although they do not differ from others in party identification) and they also attend religious services more frequently than others. They do not differ from other adults in terms of household income, but are less likely to be college graduates. Read the rest at Pew Internet & American Life.
Education Funding [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Is The eTextbook Revolution Just Around The Corner?
McGraw Hill Education, one of Apple’s leading partners in its e-textbook initiative announced in January, thinks that the new iPad unveiled on March 7 will lead to a revolution in education materials, but perhaps not for the obvious reasons.
Sure, McGraw Hill Education vice president of new ventures Vineet Madan is impressed with the new iPad’s high-resolution retina display and its improved processing power, but he thinks that the discounted iPad 2 will allow more schools to begin considering deploying iPads for their students.
“I’ve long thought that the tipping-point price for a tablet is between $200 and $300,” Madan told TPM. “Now that the entry-level iPad 2 has dropped by $100, and it’s now $399 for a 16 gigabyte version, we’ll see much more uptake.”
McGraw Hill already has a line of five K-12 textbooks for the iPad 2 through iBooks 2 and over 50 iPad textbooks for higher education and the professional market through an app from partner firm Inkling, into which McGraw Hill Education has heavily invested. Read the rest at Talking Points Memo.
