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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Free iPhones and a Switch to Google Mail: a Campus Tries Mobile Online Learning and Outsourcing - Chronicle of Higher Ed
Mobile learning and outsourcing e-mail operations are two of the hottest topics in campus IT today. Kevin Roberts knows a lot about both of them. He has moved his institution, Abilene Christian University, from a home-grown e-mail system to Google Apps for Education, and overseen experiments in group learning using various Google applications. He also has pushed for mobile computing, providing free iPhones to faculty members and students to create and complete course work from anywhere on the campus. How has it worked out? Can his experiences serve as models for other institutions? And what has been the reaction to those changes on his campus? Do students and faculty members have different views?
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