Apple announced last Wednesday that they will be holding a keynote tomorrow, Jan. 19th at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The keynote is set to cover whats new with education. As usual, that’s about all the info that was given out. There are some rumors floating around that iTunes U will get a good overhauling and that there will be a whole new suite of iOS education software that will be released.
Some people are convinced Apple will be releasing an “E-Tablet” that is dedicated to reading course material on and nothing else. I find this highly unlikely. They already have the iPad as a platform, I see them expanding on that versus releasing an entirely new product dedicated to reading.
I would however like to see an expansion of iBooks, as of right now it’s pretty difficult to find education books in the current iBook Store. If a dedicated education section in the store existed, it would make it a lot easier to obtain the appropriate books for class.
Of course we’ll cover what Apple announces, so stay tuned in tomorrow.
