Oklahoma State University to start up iPad initiative

So far my favorite app is Soundhound. It brings so many music library features together in one place - great for exploring new artists, or watching videos of your fave band. It blew me away when it went off and found the lyrics to the music I was playing from my on-board mp3 tunes without prompting!

I wish they would start up some iOS/Mac OS X programming courses. Their .NET centered courses offered at the Oklahoma City campus are quite good.

Starting this fall at Northwest Tech in Goodland, KS every student on campus will have an iPad, with full integration in classes.

http://www.nwktc.edu/ipad

We're just finishing up a class this week that was done entirely with iPads. There were no printed materials, no books, and even lectures projected on the screen were done with Keynote through an iPad.

The only real problem I'm aware of is the poor Wi-Fi reception these things have. We finally had to put an access point in the classroom.

I would have needed a pen tool to really use the iPad for note-taking in college -- I was a physics major, so most of my notes were diagrams and scribbled math equations.

However, I did double-major in one of the humanities, and having searchable and annotatable PDFs of my books would have been incredible. I remember so often frantically flipping through one book or another trying to find that perfect quote that would prove my point.

Online tests can get gimmicky unless done really right, as can "networked learning." It will definitely take some time to figure out the best way to use iPads in class.

"the university will monitor, both, how the device affects their learning and what their textbook costs turn out to be. Additionally, the classes in the pilot program will look at using, both, apps and Web-based tools on the devices, as is appropriate for the classroom."

Ouch. Did this not get proofread before being posted?

Go Pokes! My Alma mater is making me prouder by the minute!!!