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classes-via-cell-phone trend, including Louisiana Community & Technical College System and Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.
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At the news conference, representatives from various textbook publishers and universities extolled the "enormous potential" that the Kindle DX may hold for education. Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, Princeton University, Reed College, Pace University, and Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia have all agreed to some type of trial program for their schools in which students will be given some type of discounted or free Kindles to "take notes and highlight, search across their library, look up words in a built-in dictionary, and carry all of their books in a lightweight device."
The following textbook publishers have agreed to add some of their products to the Kindle catalog: Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman & Prentice Hall (Pearson), Wadsworth, Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Heinle, Schirmer, South-Western (Cengage), and Wiley Higher Education. Amazon estimates that this represents more than 60% of the U.S. higher education textbook market. The only major publisher not involved is McGraw-Hill Education.
You don't need a classroom to learn - in fact I would say most learning doesn't occur in the classroom any way - so isn't all learning already these things?
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Consider another perspective: "we go to classrooms to learn". It may have been more valuable at one time, but with meetups and internet connectivity, I wonder if classrooms are going to go the way of business offices: distributed, open, mobile.
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