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iPad, I Saw, I Waited: The State of E-textbooks, http://bit.ly/nOH3b8
The Digital Revolution and Higher Education Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:01 PM PDT The Pew Research Center has released The Digital Revolution and Higher Education. Here's an excerpt: The Future of Online Learning. College presidents predict substantial growth in online learning: 15% say most of their current undergraduate students have taken a class online, and 50% predict that 10 years from now most of their students will take classes online. Digital Textbooks. Nearly two-thirds of college presidents (62%) anticipate that 10 years from now, more than half of the textbooks used by their undergraduate students will be entirely digital. . . . College Presidents and Technology. The leaders of the nation's colleges and universities are a tech-savvy group. Nearly nine-in- ten (87%) use a smartphone daily, 83% use a desktop computer and 65% use a laptop. And they are ahead of the curve on some of the newer digital technologies: Fully half (49%) use a tablet computer such as an iPad at least occasionally, and 42% use an e-reader such as a Kindle or Nook.