Duke’s iPod experiment being evaluated
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 1, 2005 at 2:43pm
As the year-long “experiment” of providing 20-gigabyte iPods to all freshmen at Duke University is coming to an end and administrators have begun to evaluate the future of the project, reports The Chronicle of Duke University.
“Critics ask: Have students used them for educational purposes? Did teachers find innovative ways to integrate this technology into their curricula? Was it worth the $500,000?” the article asks. “While administrators have no concrete answers—a thorough and systematic evaluation will be finalized within two weeks—the implementation of the program has been as hotly debated as any measurement of its success.”
Approximately 1,650 freshmen were given the iPods in August. The devices were theirs to keep as long as they hang onto them through the end of the school year. As an accessory to the iPods, Duke handed out microphones made by Belkin.
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