What a briliant idea - I went to college in the wrong era. Too bad that the school markets it with the white flag of surrender, acknowledging that lost tuition isn't enough to keep young people from sleeping through their 11am classes.
Seriously, in grad school I rather enjoyed the handful of distance learning/online collaborative classes that I had. I have trouble focusing and so having the lecture on CD-ROM or stored on the Web was always helpful. Being able to carry lectures on an MP3 player would have been great, too.
<br><br><br>----Original Message Follows----<br>From: "Chris Schuepp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>Reply-To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group<[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]><br>Subject: [DDN] podcast me a lecture<br>Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:33:19 +0200<br><br>Tuesday - June 14, 2005<br>iPod to lecture lazy students<br>By Macworld staff<br><br>Students at Coventry University can miss lectures safe in the knowledge that they will be able to catch up later by listening to them on their iPods.<br>The university has kicked off a scheme that allows students to download MP3 recordings of lectures to play on their iPods. The students can also play movie clips from lectures on their 3G phones.<br>The scheme is designed to provide a "safety net" for those students who find attending lectures before midday difficult. It will be free to download the information.<br>Media tutor Harold Fricker told The Sun: "We are not kidding ourselves - there will always be lazy students who prefer to stay in bed or let their minds wander during the seminars."<br><br><br>SOURCE: http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=11835<br>_________________________________________<br><br>Chris Schuepp<br>Young People's Media Network - Coordinator<br>c/o ECMC (European Centre for Media Competence)<br>Bergstr. 8 / 10th floor<br>D-45770 Marl - Germany<br><br>Tel.: +49 2365 502480<br>Mobile: +49 176 23107083<br>Fax: +49 12126 23107083<br>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<br>URL: www.unicef.org/magic<br>Mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/youthful-media<br><br>The YPMN is supported by UNICEF and hosted by the ECMC.<br><br>The opinions and views expressed in this message and/or articles & websites linked to from this message do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies.<br>_________________________________________<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list<br>[email protected]<br>http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide<br>To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.<br>
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