AppleInsider today revealed that just two weeks before the iPhone went on sale last year, Apple flew representatives from five universities to push a “new educational learning initiative dubbed ‘iPhone University.’”
According to the report representatives were present from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Yale but also the lesser known Abilene Christian University (ACU).
The report comes a day after ACU announced that they would issue iPhones or iPod touches to incoming students for use in their college and day-to-day lives.
At ACU - the first university in the nation to provide these cutting-edge media devices to its incoming class - freshmen will use the iPhones or iPod Touches to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.
The new learning experience is being dubbed “Connected.”
ACU said that it is developing 15 useful web applications for use on the Apple devices, the school has offered a demo video showing off some of the possibilties. Some demos of the web apps are available at http://acu.mobi.
ACU appears to have lead the pack by announcing the new learning experience but those familiar with the matter report that the other four schools will follow suit soon and Apple is said to hold a “considerable list” of additional institutions interested joining the initiative.
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