Implementing A Tablet Pc Requirement Program
Joseph G. Tront, Kimberly L. Filer, Glenda Rose Scales, Jane Chu Prey · 2020
Tablet PCs are one of the newest innovations in the computing and communications world and have the potential for significantly improving the way in which faculty members teach and the processes involved in student learning.The College of Engineering at Virginia Tech decided to require that all incoming freshmen be required to own their own tablet PC starting in the Fall of 2006.This paper describes the process by which the College arrived at this decision as well as the benefits of this initiative seen to this point.We also discuss the various processes involved in implementing the requirement program including faculty and staff training, development of the necessary support infrastructure, establishment of working relationships with hardware and software vendors needed to support this pioneering venture, and the assessment activities needed to measure the effectiveness of the overall process and its demonstrable changes in the way in which faculty teach and students learn.