The Illinois Institute of Technology announced today that it will provide all incoming first-year undergraduates an Apple (AAPL) iPad “as part of an initiative to integrate new technologies into the classroom and foster educational innovation among faculty and students. Not a huge deal; IT has “more than 7,700 students,” and not some of them are grad students. But it is a sign that the iPad could be a big deal in the higher education market.
Back in 1983, when my sister was a freshman at Drexel University, all incoming students were required to buy a 128K Mac, complete with a big Drexel D on the side. Wonder what happened to it….
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