Why I Requested an Apple iPad 2 from Rutgers University
Posted by mLearnCon Staff
Categories: Apple/iPhone/iPad , Higher Education , Tablet
Last year, I made a few waves when I posted, "Why I Returned the Apple iPad Tablet to Rutgers University." Now, I'm requesting an Apple iPad 2 to use to teach my Social Media Marketing and Digital Marketing courses in the Rutgers Mini-MBA program. So, have I changed my mind, or has the iPad changed to become what I had in mind all along?
Here's the backstory: In July 2010, Matt Bailey, the president and founder of SiteLogic Marketing, Cindy Krum, the Chief Executive Officer of Rank-Mobile, and I taught some of the courses in the first Rutgers Mini-MBA: Digital Marketing course. In December 2010, Heidi Cohen, the president of Riverside Marketing Strategies, Liana "Li" Evans, the co-founder and CEO of LiBeck Integrated Marketing, and I taught some of the courses in the first Rutgers Mini-MBA: Social Media Marketing course.
The Rutgers Center for Management Development (CMD) had supplied all the students in both courses with their own free Apple iPads, which contained pre-loaded instructional materials. The participants in both courses liked their iPads.
More importantly, they liked the courses, as the video clip below shows.
Read more from the full article from Search Engine Watch here.
