Promoting Interactions with Technology: Review of a College-Wide Tablet PC Program

In this paper, we describe findings from an empirical review of a college-wide Tablet PC program at Virginia tech five years after the program’s inception. Data were collected through a student survey (n=1090) and focus groups with students (n=21) and semi-structured interviews with faculty members (n=4) were conducted. The findings suggested that the use of Tablet PCs with collaborative software promoted various types of faculty-student (e.g....