Educational Technology

March 19, 2012

Tablet Ownership Triples Among College Students

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:29 am

By Nick DeSantis, Chronicle of Higher Ed

The number of college students who say they own tablets has more than tripled since a survey taken last year, according to new poll results released today. The Pearson Foundation sponsored the second-annual survey, which asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about their tablet ownership. The results suggest students increasingly prefer to use the devices for reading. One-fourth of the college students surveyed said they owned a tablet, compared with just 7 percent last year. Sixty-three percent of college students believe tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years—a 15 percent increase over last year’s survey. More than a third said they intended to buy a tablet sometime in the next six months.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/tablet-ownership-triples-among-college-students/35764

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