iPhones and iPads on Campus

The search for killer apps goes on Follow up to an earlier post on Abilene Christian University providing iPhones to all students and a follow up on implementation a year later. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a conference looking at the use being made of smartphones and tablets in different parts of university …

NSS: can things get any worse in universities?

Press stories on latest NSS results seem to be largely of the glass one fifth empty variety Indeed, you could be forgiven for thinking the sector was already in meltdown if you read the Independent which says "one-third of university students unhappy with lecturers' performance": Thousands of university students still find their lecturers too remote …

New University League Table iPhone App

New League Table iPhone App QS, compilers of world university league tables, have produced an iPhone app so rankings are never out of reach. My life is now complete.

How the iPhone Could Reboot Education

Follow up to post a year ago on the big iPhone giveaway at Abilene Christian U. How do you educate a generation of students eternally distracted by the internet, cellphones and video games? Easy. You enable them by handing out free iPhones — and then integrating the gadget into your curriculum. That’s the idea Abilene …

iPhone giveaway leads to worries

Diverting piece in the Chronicle about the impact of new technologies on student behaviour and the campus experience: Abilene Christian U. Will Continue iPhone Giveaway. The giveaway seems to have had an impact on the way students relate to each other and they are now obsessed with their devices: The university's unusual effort to give …