Abilene Christian University First University to Provide iPhones to Students

Abilene Christian University has broken new ground in promoting the use of portable computing devices by announcing their plan to provide iPhones or iPod Touches to all incoming students.

At ACU - the first university in the nation to provide these cutting-edge media devices to its incoming class - freshmen will use an iPhone or iPod touch 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. ACU's vision for technology has been captured in a forward-looking film called 'Connected,' found online - along with information about ACU's other ground-breaking mobile learning
efforts - at www.acu.edu/connected.

This move is an early sign of the placement on a 2-3 horizon of Mobile Broadband devices written up in the NMC 2008 Horizon Report.

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