The University of Virginia Darden School of Business has nearly concluded an experiment testing the Kindle DX with MBA students.
Based on a preliminary report, at least 75 percent of the participants said they would no recommend the device to other incoming students for classroom use. In a short article on the school’s webpage, Darden’s director of MBA operations Michael Koenig noted that the device wasn’t suited for the “fast-paced classrooms” at the business school.
Here’s an excerpt: “‘You must be highly engaged in the classroom every day,’ says Koenig, and the Kindle is ‘not flexible enough … It could be clunky. You can’t move between pages, documents, charts and graphs simply or easily enough compared to the paper alternatives.’ Koenig learned of the dissatisfaction from a mid-term survey that concluded with two key questions: Would you recommend the Kindle DX to an incoming Darden MBA student? A total of 75 to 80 percent answered ‘no,’ says Koenig.”