Academic administration professional development

academic administration, professional development support, and electronic information
dissemination.
Lemai Nguyen, Siew Mee Barton, and Linh Thuy Nguyen, the authors of the journal
article Ipads in Higher Education—Hype and Hope, studied the use of iPads in a classroom for
both students and staffs. The authors focused on how iPad’s has gained popularity for learning.
“Students were found to hold a positive attitude about using iPad in their learning. Although iPad
was found to motive students’ learning some resistance was found because it could create a
distraction” (L.Nguyen, Barton, T. Nguyen, 2014). Students found academics to be exciting with
the use of iPads and its mobile apps. Although iPad was found to be a good tool to enhance
students’ learning experiences, iPad was found to be a great distractor to students because of its
instant access to internet resources and mobile apps.
One can see that iPads can lead to several benefits in the future. iPads can be used as a
tool to motivate learners and learn in the digital m-learning world. There are definite benefits to
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the use of iPads in a classroom setting; however, there are definite disadvantages as well. One
disadvantage of the use of iPads is the wide access to different apps and internet sources.
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References
Nguyen, L., Barton, S. M., & Nguyen, L. T. (2014). IPads in higher education-Hype and
hope. British Journal of Educational Technology, 46 (1), 190-203. doi:10.1111/bjet.12137
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