Duke University distributed ipods to 1600 entering students in 2004. The professosrs were able to provide portable access to course content, capture lectures given in class, capture field notes and interviews, study support tool, and file storage and transfer. The benefits of using this is the convenience for both the faculty and the students, flexible on location, and the it was effective and easy to use. This is a very good idea and think that all colleges should try it and see how it works.
75% of the first year students reported having using at least one ipod feature in a class for independant studies. The bad things about it is that they had difficulties finding commercial sources. They also problems with the limitations of the device and the recordings on the ipod were not very good quality. I think that this could all work great when they get all of the bugs out.
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