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Article: An Apple for the Prof--an iPod for the Frosh.(Duke University experiment proviides students with iPods)
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- Strategic Finance
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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* MOST RECENT NEWS ABOUT iPODS ON CAMPUS has been about peer-to-peer music downloads that strain university networks and bring legal threats from the recorded music industry. But not at Duke University in Durham, N.C. There the pocket-size digital audio players from Apple were handed out to all members of the incoming class of 2008 in an experiment in technology-delivered education.
Why in the world would the administration and faculty encourage this kind of distraction from serious study? That the 20GB iPods went for $300 per and were given away free also caught the attention of people around the country. What was the university's provost thinking?
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