College of Education instructors using iPads to explore educational apps

Throughout the country, professors and higher education administrators are evaluating ways to use electronic readers as a replacement for textbooks and photocopied reading materials. Temple’s College of Education is using iPads to give its enrollees a chance to see which apps they think they could use as teachers, said Lori Bailey, the college’s director of information and instructional technology. The college bought 25 iPads and gave them to instructors of a course on technology in education last semester to load with as many potentially useful educational apps as they could get for $60, Bailey said.
March 18, 2011 | Philadelphia Business Journal