I found some information on Duke and ipod's on http://www.csmonitor.com. Duke university was awarded a grant to give all incoming freshman ipod's. All incoming freshman were provided with their own twenty gigabyte ipod, and some upperclassmen. By the spring Duke had to cut back on its ipod giveaways and changed the next fall to only students that were enrolled into classes that the ipod had direct use. There were teachers as well as students that were very excited about the ipod's.
About seventy-five percent of students surveyed said that they used their ipods for academic work. Some popular uses of ipod were recording lectures, taking oral notes, and creating electronic flash cards. There were reports of professors saying that students seemed more engaged in the classes that they could use ipod's. One proffesor called ipod's glorified tape recorders, but said that the advantages were clear.
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