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.]
Its not real, or way or very…its ULTRA cool!
I’m jealous. So so jealous.
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Don’t be jealous. Every school that gives away free computers to students will pay for it with tuition fees. My godson’s private school gives them a new macbook every two years during high school and then charges them $22k a year for tuition.
Tell the US army to supply them also. The terrorists in Afghanistan are probably on the April 3rd shipping list.
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iPhone-wielding Taliban beating Australian forces in Afghanistan ….
Looks like tuition/rm/bd runs a little shy of 20K per semester. Is that about avg for a private school these days? Seton Hall was aobut 45K, so this is a much better deal.
Yes, a $20,000 + tuition is totally due to having a laptop computer.
Huh. Who knew there was a Seton Hill? Now, it we can just get Seton Hall to buy them too!
Whatever happened as a result of the Duke iPod program a couple of years back? What kind of feedback came from the Profs, students and administration? Are they still doing it and what effect did it have on the Mac headcount on campus?
I remember hearing a lot on the announcement, but never heard much in the way of follow up.
I hope someone there has actually used an iPad and they know what they’re going to do with them before they buy them.
Hmmm. For IT support of this school, education of students and staff, and the demand that will be created by a mass halo effect…Apple needs to open an Apple Store nearby.
Outstanding! Maybe there’s hope for the world afterall.
I hope someone there has actually used an iPad and they know what they’re going to do with them before they buy them. _Bill_
The iPad is a revolutionary new product whose far-reaching uses even its designers may not fully comprehend, but you want everybody to figure it all out before buying the product. Hello???
Ladies and gentlemen, this is just the beginning!
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The nice thing about having it be part of the tuition fee is when it comes to scholarships and student loans. If it’s separate, then these may not apply. The downside of course is if you want a 17″ MacBook Pro.
The students at my fiancee’s pharmacy school are currently petitioning to get iPads. In her first year, they were given Windows Vista notebooks. The following year, the university took them back and gave them all MacBooks and iPod touches; it made an obvious positive impact on the students’ learning and faculty’s productivity. I think the iPad will take them to that next level.
@question
they’re too busy playing bubblewrap to provide feedback. go blue devils!
@alansky
Um, I don’t want people to waist money, and leave them with a bad taste in their mouth for Apple products. If they have a plan and test the iPad’s ability to fulfill that plan, they can be impressed by it’s ability, rather than assuming it will be whatever they think it is.
All I’m saying is go to the Apple Store, try one, and, if you think kids can use it for studying, *then* buy one for every kid in your college. Why would you buy one if you hadn’t even seen one? Hello?
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_Bill_,”Um, I don’t want people to waist money, “
I wouldn’t want to taist the waste. Or is it, Waste the taste?
This is awesome.
@Bill
for all we know, this could be a test bed and sponsored by Apple, and they have had a good look at it?
Steve Jobs once said that they had to let go of a few things, and that one of them was that for Apple to win Microsoft had to lose; let that one go.
“Chalk up yet another win for Apple” was enough as MDN take.
who don’t really learn anything at all.
iPads are just an enlarged iphone, which I already think are fairly decent at providing readable material for their screen size. An ipad might be usefull IF it had flash, but be that as it may, not being able to visit a large portion of fortune 500 websites is absurd for a “revolutionary product”. The iPad is just a dumbed down version of the iphone with a bigger screen. I could have shat that out of my 3rd grade R&D;asshole 3 years ago.