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[bassexpander]

Actually, you can use other devices, but by listing it as a "requirement," they are able to lump it in with financial aid for students.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519551,00.html

This is where I'm doing my MA, btw.

[eamo]

Should university requirements stress a particular brand and model? A lot of devices can do what the ipod and itouch do.

Is the dean getting a fat envelope from Steve Jobs?

[Chet Wautlands]

People will complain, but there's something to this. Repeat listenings of lectures would have helped me a lot in university.

side note: listenings is coming up as a misspelled word. Viewings is OK, but listenings is not. Am I spelling it wrong? It it not word? Hearings is OK. Hmm...

[crazy_arcade]

[quote="Chet Wautlands"]People will complain, but there's something to this. Repeat listenings of lectures would have helped me a lot in university.

side note: listenings is coming up as a misspelled word. Viewings is OK, but listenings is not. Am I spelling it wrong? It it not word? Hearings is OK. Hmm...[/quotI


the use of the university library has allowed students to relisten to a lecture for a long long time. just sign out the tape. there are good uses of tech...but some things are just stupid.

[Chet Wautlands]

My university didn't have that option, nor would I have used it. But simply being able to download a lecture and listen to it whenever I want would have been an attractive option.

I can understand a complaint about forcing students to use an expensive brand of mp3 player, but this is not a stupid use of technology.

[hogwonguy1979]

I know my undergraduate school requires all incoming freshmen to buy a pc/laptop FROM THE UNIV at a higher cost and not bring their own with them to school.

I personally think thats a load of bs. another reason why i dont contribute to my undergrad school and likely never will

[Draz]

Ugh, I never would have done that. I can hardly tolerate listening to new and interesting things, forget a lecture I've already heard.

[Rusty Shackleford]

[Robot_Teacher]

Many of my lectures were recorded onto professor web pages where we could visit to review while other classes had computers for each student. Some classes were live internet sessions using large group conferencing software where you virtually go to school sitting in a Starbucks or at home with your laptop. In other classes like distance courses in the military, I used cassettes and VCR tapes, but that was 10 years ago or more.

I don't see why you need an IPOD when you have MAC or PC unless you want to listen while you commute, but people in Columbia Missouri don't have long commutes and most drive or walk only 5 to 20 minutes to get to school or work, thus, spending most free time at their desks in front of their Macs. Columbia is not big like Seoul or Chicago or St. Louis where you spend 2 to 4 hours a day on public transit as it's like only 100,000 population college town, but you need a car to really live there unless you just stay on campus all the time as an unemployed student.

I can see why people would complain about the MP3 player requirment. Wouldn't an IPOD classic work too if you already own one, allowing you save money? Wouldn't a PC or Mac work too? It takes student loan money for all these extras and books often cost over $75 if not $100 each. Is this IPOD Touch for note taking besides simply reviewing lectures? If so, laptops already are serving that purpose as most students have laptops.

Since we put significant money and time into education, why not use computers in all classrooms? Some courses I took did have a computer at each desk and the professor controlled your use of it to administer the material. I think computers in the classroom and using internet outside of class is a brilliant idea that's been around for at least 10 years and experimented with.

[cangel]

By law, in US schools, recording the class is illegal unless one gets consent from everyone involved e.g. profs and students... Has to do with copyright laws and potentially wiretapping laws.

[Sleepy in Seoul]