Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Sunday, November 25, 2007
iPhone Holds Promise As a Portable Classroom - Kansas City InfoZine
Last summer, throngs of technophiles camped in lines to snap up the iPhone, the latest must-have from the innovators at Apple. Some desired the iPhone's functionality; others liked the product's stylishness; many simply wanted to be first to flash the red-hot status symbol. But one researcher at the University of Kansas saw through the hullabaloo to recognize that the pioneering iPhone offered promise as a distance-learning tool. According to James R. Miller, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at KU, the pocket-sized computer can perform like an on-the-go classroom.

 



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