Accesories, Bags and More IPad Stuff

Ipad Accesories

iPad in Education: Stanford School of Medicine Giving iPads to Students

Posted by admin on August 1, 2010 in Uncategorized with No Comments


Stanford University’s School of Medicine has adopted the iPad.  They’re going to provide an iPad for all incoming first year medical students and Master of Medicine students.

The school offered four reasons for this new iPad program, including student readiness and ‘information literacy’.

Here’s more on those reasons for the iPad initiative:

The school cited four reasons behind the new program, including student readiness, noting that iPad “creates opportunities for efficient, mobile, and innovative learning.”

Stanford also noted “the flexibility of iPad technology,” noting that “iPad allows students to view and annotate course content electronically, facilitating advance preparation as well as in-class note-taking in a highly portable, sharable and searchable format.”

Access to information and “information literacy” was also a consideration, with the school pointing out that “students will be able to easily access high-quality information at any place, at any time (for example, images from textbooks on digital course reserve, image databases, journal articles, Lane Library’s various search tools, etc.)”

A fourth rationale was Stanford’s intent to go green, “replacing printed syllabi with PDFs is in line with the Sustainable Stanford initiative, which aims to build sustainable practices into every aspect of campus life.”

The iPad has seemed a complete natural for the medical field ever since it was first announced, so it’s not shocking to see it adopted by a leading medical school.  I expect we’ll see the iPad being used by a large number of universities and other educational institutions in coming years.

Via: Apple Insider

« previous post

Apple iPad may arrive late in ...

ipadThe Apple iPad which was made available to nine new countries just last week might come l...

next post »

The Secrets Of The Apple Ipad

Apple has usually taken the entire world by the storm with its each and every item launch....

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

No trackbacks yet.

No post with similar tags yet.

Posts in similar categories

About Me Sample Title

This is a sample text about you. You may login and go to the Dojuniko settings page and edit this text. Here you can display a summary of your website or anything that is interesting to your visitors. You also can disable this section completely. You have full control thru the settings page.