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Notre Dame embarks on a paperless course with iPads

by David Winograd Aug 31st 2010 at 3:00PM


The University of Notre Dame's yearlong study of eReaders in academics is starting the school year with a bang -- a course that will use the iPad as the only textbook students need. The course is entitled Project Management, and each of the 40 students enrolled will be given an iPad to use in lieu of textbooks. The students will be encouraged to integrate their borrowed iPad into their life by syncing their iTunes library, games, and anything else they would like, and to report their findings.

Project Management is a required undergraduate course for students majoring in Management Consulting, IT Management and Entrepreneurship as part of the management curriculum of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. Participants will come from a wide variety of orientations including: Business, Law, IT, Arts and Letters, Press and Institutional Equity. After the six-week course, the iPads will be given to another set of students and the second group will be studied through surveys, observations and interviews.

Corey Angst, the course professor, makes the important point that the iPad will not be considered a thing unto itself, but rather one piece of of an ever increasing toolkit of resources that students will add to throughout their coursework and their lives. Therefore the study will start out as a consideration of eReaders, but organically morph into the discovery of other uses of iPads and other such devices.

There will be wiki-based discussions about what the students have found to be useful and to share their discoveries with others in the class. It's quite exciting to see this sort of research being done and I'm sure that the results of this (and other studies yet to come) will make major inroads into a wide range of fields including: business, sociology, IT and literature, just to name a few. You can follow the progress of this study on a blog that has been set up for just this purpose.

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September 13 2010 at 10:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mikeo

This is a cool piece of technology. I wish I had it when I was a grad student instead of carrying around my WallStreet Mac to my EMC classes when giving a lecture.

September 01 2010 at 8:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
vinayala

speaking of obvious troll... anyone notice that the professor was using a stylus?

August 31 2010 at 9:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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paperless

Nope!

September 01 2010 at 10:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ziggy

wow, way to get off track! SImply put- it's a cool project they are doing giving 40 students iPads in leu of expensive, heavy, no fun to drag around campus books! Wish they were doing that at my daughters school (and she's only in grade school)...in the US I might add..haha

August 31 2010 at 9:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
redcard

I'm British and I knew it wasn't in France.

Try not to make the mistake of judging other commenters by your own standards.

August 31 2010 at 7:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
beans

well, I the way I see it is that there shouldn't be any confusion if one reads the article. So, either he/she didn't read the article and the confusion is somewhat understandable, or he/she did read it and is a dummy for expecting français.

Just saw the video though, brings back memories of good times. Debart was pretty much my home for like 3 years.

August 31 2010 at 5:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Leiwei

goodreader and print central says hello.

you're an obvious troll.

August 31 2010 at 4:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
waffle

As a freshman at ND, I share beans' sentiment, but it seems clear enough that Joanna D is not American (apart from putting USA after Indiana, she did say "burnt" instead of "burned"), and therefore could not be expected to be familiar with our beloved University. She is hardly a dolt.

Secondly, to Joanna D, Notre Dame is extremely well-known in the US, for academics, opportunities for spiritual growth, and (best known of all), a legendary (American) football program. Which hopefully will be better this year.

August 31 2010 at 4:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
beans

Um...first, it's the University of Notre Dame and secondly, you'd have to be a real dolt to be surprised that this had nothing to do with France. Unless you're trolling, then by all means, carry on.

Class of '05...I miss that place.

August 31 2010 at 4:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ObamaPacman

Obvious troll is obvious

August 31 2010 at 4:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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