ACU provides iPhone or iPod touch to all incoming freshmen
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 26, 2008 at 2:28pm
An Apple iPhone or iPod touch will become a central part of Abilene Christian University’s learning experience this fall when all freshmen are provided one of these converged media devices, says Phil Schubert, ACU executive vice president.
He says ACU is the first university in the U.S. to provide these 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, according to ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.
ACU’s innovative plans for this technology have attracted the attention of Apple executives and leaders at Ivy League universities. In fact, Roberts returned to Abilene Monday from Cupertino, California, where he was asked to present ACU’s creative vision for converged media devices at Apple headquarters to executives and to selected leaders from universities including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Duke, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton and UCLA, Schubert said.
ACU’s vision for technology has been captured in a film called Connected. You can view it here.
You can buy iPods and iPod products here
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