Duke revamps free iPod program

Last year, we looked on enviously as Duke gave out iPods to each member of its freshman class, you know – for educational purposes. Recording lectures, taking oral notes and the like. *snort*

Well, surprise, Duke will not be reprising the pilot project, which cost $500,000. Instead, only students entering certain fields of study will be lucky recipients.

According to the AP: “In a memo to faculty, Peter Lange, the university’s provost and senior academic officer, said the administration was pleased with how the free iPod project encouraged faculty and students ‘to consider new ways of using the technology in fields from engineering to foreign languages.’ ”

We hope they also used the technology to rock out and annoy the hell out of Baltimore Sun writer Kevin Cowherd.

Via My Way News