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Should Kindles be Used in Higher Education

Posted by Laura McLay on 09/03/2010 at 11:45 am

Student using Kindle One of my goals this year is to test out and review several teaching with technology and social networking tools. I will periodically post reviews here. I should preface that the reviews are aimed at higher education professors in STEM fields. I consider teaching to include both classroom teaching and student mentoring/advising, and thus, the reviews will cover one or both of those components of teaching. Look for the teaching with technology tag. My first review will be about the Kindle DX by Amazon.... Read more at Punk Rock Operations Research

Topics: Education , Kindle , teaching , students , STEM , technology , reviews

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Posted by Matt Smalls on 01/04/2011 at 10:06 am

The <a href="http://tsbl.in/">Logistic courses</a> will help out the students to have more understanding and knowledge about product shipping and logistics. These courses are quite eminent in many developing and urbanized countries.

Posted by Barry Render on 01/04/2011 at 10:06 am

I am also very interested in e-readers in our courses and look forward to your analysis. I recently blogged on the current seemingly lack of interest by students in these new tools at my daily OM site. See www.heizerrenderom.wordpress.com

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