A College education on your PDA

A Texas college is piloting a program that will allow students to take an entire college course on a PDA. According to Wendy Gragg at the Kileen Daily Herald, the Central Texas College (CTC) have decided that this is the way to reach people who would not normally be able to gain a college education. The CTC chancellor claims that:


“There’s nothing that we can put on line that we can’t put on a PDA.”

The idea is that groups like the Navy who don’t have the space, access to the internet nor the ability to come to college will now be able to complete their education. It is currently being tested on the Navy College Program for Afloat College Education. If successful the courses will be available to crews on aircraft carriers and in submarines.

The courses will be available from next year and range from biology, communications, English, government, management, math and psychology. Dell are supplying the PDAs which will host the multimedia courses. The handheld devices take up a fragment of the space a PC would use, and they can be used anywhere. Plans to put entire text books and even several courses on a single memory card are so simple it seems too obvious not to have been used before.

If you know any more about this new way to learn, let me know.