iKnow 2.0: iPads as textbooks
Channel: freedhardeman
Date: 2011-08-17

iKnow 2.0 will provide an iPad to all Freshmen beginning with the Fall 2012 cohort. In addition, FHU will establish minimum MacBook requirements for incoming freshmen. It is anticipated that continuing and transfer students will be provided an opportunity to opt in to the iKnow 2.0 program and receive an iPad for a one-time fee that is basically equivalent to the cost of the iPad.

The most exciting part of the program will be ability to access textbooks via the iPad. Historically, students would go to the university bookstore and spend hundreds per semester on books. Now, because of the iPad, students have access to interactive digital textbooks that are not only more participatory, but significantly more affordable. 

In 2008, Freed-Hardeman pioneered integrating technology in the classroom with the iKnow initiative. With the development of mobile technology and the fusion of academics, highly trained faculty and the best students in the southeast, FHU has been repeatedly recognized as the leading technological university within the region and in the southeast. 

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