Duke University first experienced with iPods was in 2004. They issused over 1600 iPods to their first-year students. As part of the University initiative to encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life. Duke University has at least 15 fall course with a total of 628 students, and estimating 33 spring courses with an enrollement of 600 students incorporating the iPod use. Duke University faculty uses iPod for Coarse content dissemination tool, Classroom rcording tool Field recording tool, and Study support tool. IPods can be convient for the faculty and the students. So many students today own personal computing device, like iPods that the increase in use of digital audioin coarse. Duke University has broadened their focus of the programs beyond iPod to a much droader effort to promote the effective use of new technology in higher education.
When I first think of iPod it's a nautral for music, iPods can be used in different ways, including moving large files so students can take them home. IPods can empower students to think on their own and come up with ways to incoroporate technology into their work. IPOds can also allow students to access lectures and coarse material and keep it on their iPods for later use. Before if you missed a lecture, you missed it and that was it. Now they can record all of the lectures and make them available, so you can listen to them anywhere. At Duke University the iPod is an exciting new component of Duke's strstegic plan, which seeks to use information technology in innovative ways within the classroom and across the campus. This is an experiment one can hope will motivate the fauclty and students to think creatively about using digital audio content.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/04/07/ipod
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