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The issue is mainly with the software. An open source platform would allow the university to tailor the software of the device to the needs of the classroom for
by postfuturist 17y ago
The issue is mainly with the software. An open source platform would allow the university to tailor the software of the device to the needs of the classroom for which is was not originally designed. Also, the keyboard was prohibitively small, which would suggest that maybe the solution is laptops which are probably already owned by most students and are open platforms for software development.
- jacobolus 17y agoThere’s no way each university is going to write the whole software stack for an ebook reader. Given current hardware and software, laptops are a poor substitute for hard copies of all the reading (at least in my experience). Making software that’s useful enough to replace printed pages is going to take decent-sized teams years of development effort.
- stcredzero 17y agoWith the tools we have nowadays, it should take 2 or 3 about 4 months. Take a look at One Note and Inkskein. I think the Inkskein team is one guy.
- jacobolus 17y agoInkseine is a research project that has been in progress for years, not a shipping product. A few months? Are you joking? This paper about it from 2007 has seven authors, guys who have spent their careers on similar technology. I can’t tell if it’s down to just one guy by now. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1240666 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1240666
- PanMan 17y agoAnd how many universities write their own software for those laptops?