Chirantan Patnaik

“Is this the device or is this the first device? It’s hard to say. But what we can certainly say firmly is that it’s the best thing to have come along so far. The reason we did this test is to learn as a content provider, how do we take a really well-designed, high-functioning mobile device and re-imagine curriculum, students interacting with learning in their own way? And that’s the exciting part with what we’ve done and what we’re trying to do.”

- John Sipe, Jr. Senior Vice President, National Sales Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, on the company’s year-long pilot program with the iPad algebra curriculum. I’ll be posting the interview in its entirety over the next couple of days.