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University of Missouri making iPods and iPhones mandatory
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by JeffHuang | May 8, 2009 at 02:09 pm
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The University of Missouri Journalism school is making the iPhone or the iPod touch mandatory for all incoming freshmen. Although 99.5 percent of the students already have Macs in the school, the University is taking it one step further by making iPhones or iPod required gadgets.
The reason for this is so the students can play back the lectures in their free time which they believe by listening to the lecture a second time, they retain three times as much of that lecture. The journalism school was stressing Apple devices to standardize software where the lectures can be downloaded for free from a special section of the iTunes store.
"There are about 50 other schools across the country that are doing this," he said.
Students who aren't on financial aid and don't have the right Apple devices may have to shell out.
But, Brooks added, Apple for the past two summers offered a back-to-school package through college bookstores where students who bought an Apple laptop got coupons for a free iPod Touch.
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at 14:32 on May 8th, 2009
University of Missouri is actually one of the top journalism schools in the country, so I guess if they say so, it is so...Although, it's a bit ridiculous, the iPhone isn't priced that badly but the service plans are killer.