iPod valuable at Duke?

One language professor at Duke University, which spent more than one half million dollars this fall to supply each incoming freshman with an iPod, says that the her students' experience with language: "With the iPods, each student can listen at their own pace and they have the control to pause or replay certain parts… I find that the slower students have more confidence." However, other students say the program needs work: "They're really useful to listen to music on—while I go running or on the bus—but mostly I don't need them for my classes and I haven't heard of anyone needing them. I think the program has a lot of room for growth. If the professors get more involved and know more ways to use."

by MacNN Staff