Other Campuses: Duke evaluates iPod experiment – The Daily Illini – News:
As the year-long “experiment” of providing 20-gigabyte Apple iPods to all freshmen winds to an end and the media frenzy slowly dies down, administrators have begun to evaluate the future of the project. Critics ask: Have students used them for educational purposes? Did teachers find innovative ways to integrate this technology into their curricula? Was it worth the $500,000?
gah, the article is spread across 6 pages and the print option requires you to go to their site: sorry about that.
Interesting overview, but I found it interesting that the professors were more into the technology than some of the students. The kid who planned to give his to his mom and the other who had never opened the supplied recording attachment, while claiming no one else used theirs, are both undeserving chowderheads.
When I was in college, back in the Stone Age, we had a prof who recorded his lectures on video, so they could be replayed through the day (he taught entry-level sections which were packed): by doing that, everyone got the same lecture and they could check it out at the media center if they wanted a refresher. Some of the Duke students and profs are taking the same approach: good for them, and I hope the other damp squibs don’t screw it up for them.