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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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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.
41% Of Students Use Social Media For Study [CHART]
41.3% of students use social media for research or study purposes, according to a survey released in February 2012 by ebrary. And although a majority are not yet engaging with social media tools for these purposes, there are some usages which a majority of students report being likely to engage in. For example, roughly 7 in 10 are very likely (22%) or somewhat likely (47.2%) to use a social media tool to connect with other students with similar academic interest, and slightly less than 60% have some interest in sharing research information with peers or using research recommended by peers. Read the rest at Marketing Charts.
