How the iPhone Could Reboot Education
Abilene Christian University has just completed the first year of a pilot program to give incoming freshmen their choice of an iPhone or an iPod Touch to use in their classes.
The verdict? It’s working quite well. 2,100 Abilene students, or 48 percent of the population, are now equipped with a free iPhone. Fully 97 percent of the faculty population has iPhones, too. The iPhone is aiding Abilene in giving students the information they need — when they want it, wherever they want it, said Bill Rankin, a professor of medieval studies who helped plan the initiative.
