iPod focus retains college students

Universities continue to look for innovative uses of the iPod on campus and at least one educator believes that its focus on the iPod helps keep students in college longer, according to The Associated Press. "At least 100 of the rural school's employees are turning iPods into education or research tools -- impressive for a college with only about 300 faculty. But it's more than simply making class lectures available -- a practice now routine at many colleges and even a few high schools. History professor Deborah Vess asks students to download 39 films to their video-capable iPods so she doesn't have to spend class time screening the movies. Psychology professor Noland White has found a new-age answer to office hours: a podcast of the week's most asked questions."

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