Indiana University announced that Hewlett-Packard Philanthropy awarded the Kelley School of Business with a grant valued at $125,000, including 45 HP TC4400 Table PCs and $15,000 in cash to purchase classroom interaction software developed by the Indianapolis-based company DyKnow.
“With these tablets in the students’ hands, using this DyKnow software, the students can interact back with us live,” said Rex Cutshall, coordinator for the Kelley School Integrated Core and senior lecturer of operations and decision technologies.
Undergraduates (in the Kelley School) are being introduced to Tablets and their touch sensitive displays that permit writing answers directly on the screen. Faculty members hope this new technology will allow them more readily to assist students’ work and improve instruction.
Business faculty have been using tablet PCs for instruction, but this will be the first time that Tablet PCs will be provided to their students.
(DyKnow Vision – and InkGestures and 17 mobile PC software for education such as MathPractice – is available for authorized free trial download on Tablet PC Post and at DyKnow.)
The Kelley School of Business joins the ranks of more than 200 campuses in 34 countries where HP has provided grants to transform learning and teaching through the use of Tablet PCs.