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Barnes & Noble releases NOOKstudy for e-Textbooks

by Mike Schramm (Aug 5th, 2010)

As promised, Barnes & Noble has released their NOOKstudy app for both Windows and OS X computers -- you can get the app for free on their webpage now, and then use it to download textbooks for school this fall (either buying them at a discount compared to the real paper copies, or just checking ...

Oklahoma State University to start up iPad initiative

by Mike Schramm (Jul 1st, 2010)

Oklahoma State University is the latest school to start setting students up with iPads. Starting this fall, a pilot program will give iPads to 125 students, and the university will monitor both how the device affects their learning and what their textbook costs turn out to be. Additionally, the ...

Education iPad orders delayed, campus stores may sell iPads

by Dave Caolo (Apr 2nd, 2010)

First the bad news. We've received several tips from customers who ordered iPads via Apple's online education store saying that their shipments will be delayed. Several customers wrote in to say that they ordered iPads through their education reps as soon as pre-orders became available. Weeks ...

First Look: CourseNotes for iPad

by Erica Sadun (Mar 31st, 2010)

CourseNotesApp developer Jon Klein was kind enough to send over this video of his upcoming iPad app. Aimed at students, this app not only simplifies iPad note taking, but helps keep those notes organized by time and subject. I showed this video around to a student-heavy group and the video received ...

Twelve iPhone apps for students

by Rosemary Kitchen (Mar 26th, 2010)

It's been a while since we were in school, but with spring break almost done with, it's time to settle back into that last long stretch of school before it warms up and summer starts. You've got your handy iPod touch or iPhone with you on campus, and of course, you'll download some games, music, ...

iPodMeister gives you an iPad for your old CDs

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 21st, 2010)

Want to get a new iPad but a little short on cash? Trade in a bunch of your old CDs or DVDs to a company called iPodMeister and your problems are solved. Sound too good to be true? It's not, reports the New York Times. iPodMeister was founded by a group of musicians and students who realized that ...

Forget the "Crackberry": Stanford students are addicted to their iPhones

by Chris Rawson (Mar 2nd, 2010)

Years ago, when the Blackberry started gaining traction among business users, people found themselves using the device so much that the nickname "Crackberry" was invented to describe how addicting the device was. According to a recent survey of 200 Stanford University students, the iPhone is just as ...

College offers freshmen a choice: iPad or MacBook

by Chris Rawson (Feb 23rd, 2010)

A few colleges offer a laptop to incoming freshmen (paid for out of their tuition, of course), but Oregon's George Fox University is, so far as we know, the first college to give students the choice between a MacBook or an iPad. According to Macsimum News, George Fox University's chief information ...

Mental Case reinvents the flash card

by Sang Tang (Aug 15th, 2009)

Education is deeply imbued in the Apple DNA. In Apple's early days, the education market served as a base from which it would grow from and, in the process, introduce many of us to personal computing as well as a new way of learning. Similarly, the iPhone has the potential to change the dynamics ...

University of Florida pharmacy students must have iPhone or iPod Touch

by Mel Martin (Jul 9th, 2009)

It's getting to be the 'in' thing for Colleges and Universities. The University of Florida at Gainesville is now requiring incoming pharmacy students for the fall semester to have either an iPhone or an iPod touch. The student Newspaper, the Alligator, quotes the College of Pharmacy Dean William ...

Japanese university tracking students via free iPhones

by Mike Schramm (Jun 1st, 2009)

If you happen to be enrolling in Aoyama Gakuin University's School of Social Informatics in Tokyo this year, make sure to stop by the admissions office to pick up your free iPhone -- the school made a deal with Softbank Corporation, the iPhone's vendor in Japan, to give the phones to 550 students ...

Apple opens registration for 2008 Insomnia Film Festival

by Cory Bohon (Oct 29th, 2008)

If you are a high school or college student, then you can now register a team for Apple's 2008 Insomnia Film Festival. The idea behind the festival is simple. Apple will post a list of elements you can use in your film, you pick three of them, and then take 24 hours to make a 3 minute movie. If you ...

Study shows 43% of college women prefer Macs

by Cory Bohon (Oct 12th, 2008)

"Hi, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC." -- You've probably heard those words more than a few times. Apple has been airing the "Get a Mac" commercials for a few years, and from the looks of it, the ads have been fairly successful. But has it really helped spread the word that Mac is better? iPhone Savior ...

Apple Stores welcome kids via Field Trip

by Michael Rose (Oct 10th, 2008)

Letting a bunch of kids loose in a candy store might be a sticky mess, but letting them loose in an Apple Store should be a delightful, brushed metal and glass wonderland of fun. Right? That's the idea behind Apple's new Field Trip program for elementary, middle and high school students and their ...

Back to School: Papers updated for the new term

by Giles Turnbull (Aug 26th, 2008)

TUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for a timely app update useful for students. PDF management app Papers has been bumped to version 1.8.5, bringing what the developers claim are ...