This Year’s UC Irvine Medical Students Get The First iPad-Based Curriculum [Ipad]

Forget sitting, lazily note-taking, listening to a professor’s lecture. UC Irvine Med School is giving the instructional system an about face by providing an iPad to each of its new students for their entirely digital, iPad-based curriculum.

Dr. Ralph Clayman, the dean of the faculty of drugs, is committed to embracing evolving technology, and shows it in the course of the interactive learning environment that they’ve developed. There are tools to account for college students’ varied learning styles, short lectures which might be viewed via podcast before group meetings, and the standard course outlines, slide presentations, and first-year textbooks-in digital format (a million trees just gave a big THANK YOU). Students can have access to audio and video libraries, and advances like digital stethoscopes and hand-held ultrasound units will also manage to interface with the iPads, too. [PhysOrg]

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