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In Fall 2004, in collaboration with Apple Computer, Inc., Duke is distributing 20GB Apple iPod device to each of its first year students. Duke hopes to stimulate creative uses of digital content by providing the iPod devices as a mobile computing device. We hope that students and faculty will use the device creatively and effectively to enhance their intellectual life at Duke. This is a collaborative project that includes Duke's Office of Information Technology, Division of Student Affairs, Office of the Provost, and the Office of the Executive Vice President.

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Evaluation of Academic iPod Projects

One goal of the Duke First-Year Experience is to assess the potential of the iPod and digital audio content in the teaching and learning context. CIT is developing a framework for assessing how this technology-intensive computing initiative has affected Duke faculty and students. CIT will work with faculty to gather data to identify: • successes and barriers in the integration of the iPod and digital audio content in courses • improvements and innovations in course design and delivery • measurable changes in student learning and student outcomes

CIT supported projects will be assessed using a variety of evaluation strategies. Each project will have an individual evaluation plan to support assessment appropriate to the specific goals of the course and project.

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======================= Courses using iPods as part of course work are:

Music, Sound, and Style University Writing Program Theory and Practice of Tonal Music I Economic Principles Social Minds: Memory as Collective Practice Berlin in the 20th Century Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing Perspectives on Information Science and Information Studies Living Downstream: Ethics, Communities and Water Conservation Intensive Elementary Spanish Computational Methods in Engineering