ACU is first university to distribute iPhones to students
During the university's June and August orientation sessions in 2009, ACU administrators handed out the next-generation Apple iPhone 3GS to the new freshman class. This second phase of implementation of mobile devices continued ACU's efforts to provide new opportunities for professors and students to interact, explore and discover in and out of the classroom.
ACU students use their iPhones or iPod touches to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, participate in class blogs, collect data for in-class projects, get directions to their professors' offices, and check their meal and account balances. Applications from Apple's online App Store have helped many teachers discover new ways of teaching their courses.
An ACU Mobile portal helps connect students to the campus through news and calendars, course documents and media, as well as a Pocket Guide to local events, restaurants, sports and more.
"Our research last year clearly showed these converged media devices have an impact on the students' engagement," says Kevin Roberts, associate vice president for operations at ACU. "We are very excited about having two classes of students benefitting from this new learning technology in the 21st-century classroom."
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