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Saturday, April 01, 2006
Digital Technology Lets Students Take Class When and Where They Want - Bill Zeeble, VOA News
Digital mp3 players like Apple's iPod can download and play hours of music and thousands of images. It's not surprising that they are among the nation's most popular entertainment devices. Now, a handful of U.S. colleges and universities are using them as education devices. When El Centro Community College in Dallas, Texas, introduced iPods to its classrooms in January of this year, instructor Cathy Carolan wasn't excited. But she dutifully recorded her lectures and diagrams for downloading to computers and Ipods. And she went along with the plan that made her students long-distance learners - meaning they rarely had to show up in class for lessons.
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