Beginning in the fall of 2010, all first year undergraduate students at Seton Hill, located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will receive a 13″ MacBook notebook and an iPad. Undergrads will have complete access to these mobile technologies for classes as well as at all times for personal use. After two years, Seton Hill will replace the MacBooks with new ones – MacBooks that students can take with them when they graduate.
Seton Hiall says that with this technology at their students’ fingertips, they’ll be able to create a just-in-time learning environment, stay in touch with professors, advisors, and classmates, research any topic at any time, engage in hybrid and fully on-line courses, and access a whole host of Seton Hill technology services. In doing so, Seton Hill students will be learning the technological skills you’ll need in the twenty-first century workforce.
Seton Hill faculty members (who will be equipped with the same MacBooks and iPads as the students) have been trained to use the best of modern technology to expand learning opportunities. In this way, Seton Hill is training students of all learning styles and abilities to be better researchers, better at compiling and organizing data, and better at publishing and presenting information – better, in fact, at becoming lifelong learners who can easily adapt to new situations and new technologies in their lives and careers.
For more information on the Griffin Technology Advantage Program, please visit: www.setonhill.edu/techadvantage
MacDailyNews Take: Not only that, but, going forward, the vast majority of Seton Hill students will also be Mac and iPad users for life. Seton Hill currently has approximately 2,100 students. And they’ll tell two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on… Chalk up yet another win for Apple and yet another loss for Microsoft!
[UPDATE: 2:15pm EDT: Fixed "Hall" to "Hill" typos in headline and article.]
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Switcheroo" for the heads up.]
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