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Poynter Online – E-Media Tidbits
So, do iPods really improve academic life and performance? That was the question that Duke University’s Center for Instructional Technology tracked over the past academic year after distributing the popular digital-music players to all of its 1,650 incoming freshmen—much to the envy of students everywhere (and probably quite a few Blue Devil upperclassmen, too). According to a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required), Brock Read reports that the project had limited instructional merit.