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Illinois college to provide iPads for all new undergrads

updated 10:35 pm EDT, Tue May 18, 2010

Students will be able to access an IIT app


The Illinois Institute of Technology has announced a new initiative that will provide all incoming, first-year undergraduates with an iPad. The program is said to be part of a larger plan that aims to integrate new technologies into the classroom and help bolster innovation among students and faculty members.

Students will be encouraged to take advantage of existing educational apps such as iBooks and Blackboard Mobile Learn. Faculty and students will also create new applications aimed at furthering classroom interactivity. IIT is already working on its own university app that will provide access to news, events, maps, course listings, emergency messages, and other content.

IIT's new program is similar to iPad initiatives announced by other schools such as Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. A number of universities have not been as welcoming to Apple's latest gadget, however. George Washington University and Princeton both voiced opposition to the device on campus grounds, citing unresolved compatibility issues with existing network systems.


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  1. iphonerulez

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    05/19, 12:17am | report spam | (1 reply) Reply |

    Apple needs to do a little more campaigning

    to get dozens of more colleges to get iPads for students which will really keep the ball rolling for Apple.

  1. testudo

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    05/19, 01:20pm | report spam | Reply |

    Wait!

    They can't do this. No one can buy more than two. How can a university get 1000?

  1. testudo

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    05/19, 01:29pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: Just the first

    This is an indicator to me that a lot of people "get it" about the basic concept behind the design and purpose of the product. If it were indeed just a large iPod Touch or a "crippled" netbook like some idiots insist, there wouldn't be the enthusiastic responses like this right out of the gate.

    Get it? Get what? I just love how, if anyone uses some product from Apple, they somehow 'get' something that anyone who doesn't use it must apparently be missing. And I'm not really sure about the whole 'enthusiastic' response you talk about.


    And what are they using these iPads for, BTW? Use the iBook store, they say. And we plan on adding some things to 'further classroom interactivity'. Wow. And to think of all the time students waste now raising their hands or getting into verbal discussions, when you could be doing it through an iPad!

    Whoo, maybe there'll be in-class polls! "How many people wish the instructor could learn to not pontificate for 15 minutes on a subject when 5 minutes would suffice?"

  1. testudo

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    05/19, 01:32pm | report spam | Reply |

    Oh

    And they aren't 'providing' iPads. The students are paying for them, they're just going through the school to get it (unless you think the school is just absorbing the cost).

    Then again, at $28k a semester, a free iPad seems kind of chintzy. And I thought Seton Hill was an expensive school!

  1. testudo

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    05/19, 03:01pm | report spam | Reply |

    One more thing

    I seem to recall everyone talking about how the iPod touch was going to be the game changer on college campuses, when some schools were handing those out. I haven't heard much of the hoopla over how school is so much better with an iPod...

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