Back in March, I posted about Mobile Learning and it’s impact on Christian Education as part of a series on the Future of Ministry Education. In that post I said:
Discussions about educational technology do not answer larger questions of educational philosophy, but I believe they must be at the forefront of any discussion regarding changing how we train people for ministry. Technological advances fuel the future. We cannot be married to technology, but we also cannot let our inability to be innovative (technologically) handicap us. Unlike many of our predecessors, we must unshackle ourselves and utilize the cutting edge.
ReadWriteWeb posted today about CourseSmart’s new iPhone app which will allow students to access textbooks from their iPhone. Right now, CourseSmart has over 7,000 eTextbooks available. This may very well provide competition for the Kindle.
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A little over a month ago, I posted “Mobile Learning: iPhone, Kindle 2 and the Future of Christian Education” examining, among other things, the potential for Amazon’s Kindle to be used as an educational tool. “I think the Kindle 2 is a completely untapped resource for [Christian/ministry] education.”
It looks like Amazon heard me…kinda.
ReadWriteWeb has an article titled, Would Students Even Want a Kindle for Textbooks? Amazon looks posed to release a Kindle specifically for college text books.
ReadWriteWeb asks, “wouldn’t it be more advantageous for students if Amazon and its partners released a Kindle for the Desktop similar to the Kindle for an iPhone app? Some of the current eTextbook offerings, like CourseSmart, already give students the option to download eTextbooks for a considerable discount.” Good call. While the Kindle iPhone app is a little difficult to use, laptops would seem to be the perfect solution.
So, why won’t Amazon do this? Because they would then have to face the reality that you don’t really need an e-book reader if they would be willing to release all their library via laptop friendly apps. Oh well.
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