Laptops are only half of the equation
Someone got it: ‘laptops are only half of the equation’ Quote: “I think we’re on the edge of a real inflection point where the hardware becomes so cheap that Web learning is really throughout the schools,” Hastings said. “But what I noticed is there’s really not that many people working on the software.” BTW Hastings is an interesting person …
The blog post about Hastings endeavours made me think about where ‘educational software’ is going to come from in the future. It’s quite clear that dealing with an open source product (eg Moodle) is different to dealing with a proprietary product (eg PebblePad) or Web 2.0 services (Matthew Allan’s list of applications). Will be interesting to see which form is going to dominate the market in 10 years and how universities adapt to these changes.
