A Scholarly Role for Consumer Technology
During a one-week welcoming event here for the General Management Program at the business school Essec, incoming students are introduced to the school, the curriculum and the staff. At the end, they are handed what educators there see as one of their most important learning tools: an iPad.
While specialized education tools have long played an important role in the classroom, some of the most commonly used gadgets and Web sites have become teaching tools of choice at business schools like Essec and elsewhere...
...Elsewhere, schools are using specialized programs to reshape their teaching. Flat World Knowledge, a textbook company, allows professors to completely re-edit online textbooks. The textbook, changed to more closely match a particular class outline, can be either viewed online or printed out and used as a traditional textbook.
Genevieve Bassellier, who teaches business at º«¹úÂãÎè in Canada, uses one of these open-source textbooks in an undergraduate business course on information technology.
"They see a huge increase in quality," she said, referring to her students' use of her customized electronic textbook. "It gives me more flexibility."
One of the things she has been able to add? How to communicate via Twitter.
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