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Originally Posted by CommonReader
The content that can be created with this software can only be used with iOS devices and may only be sold via Apple. Publishers and educational institutions would be insane to sign up for such a scheme, shoveling revenue towards Apple for no identifiable reason. Any public school or university signing up for this should get a visit from the public accounting office asap.
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I've seen schools fall for crazier and stupider programs that only ended up wasting large quantities of taxpayer money. You have to remember, that modern education is based around whatever the latest teaching gimmick is, not what actually works. If you could get a college professor to teach that students could only learn when the teachers were wearing Godzilla costumes, you'd see a lot of teachers going around dressed like Kaiju monsters.
On the other hand, Apple has been one of the "better" ones for putting technology into classrooms and finding "educational" uses for it. As a kid, I can remember the old Apples for the Students program- much as my mom didn't approve of it- and seeing vast labs of Apple IIe and //c computers. MS didn't get that focus until recently, when it started getting schools to offer MS Office 07 in business classes.