Japanese university using free iPhones to monitor students





A university in Japan is using iPhone to help monitoring their students and staff, giving them a free iPhone plus a basic monthly service. The university will also send test and homework assignments through the iPhone.

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About 550 students and staff at Japan’s Aoyama Gakuin University will be getting free iPhones through SoftBank as part of the school’s Mobile & Net Society Education and Training program. Aoyama Gakuin University will use the iPhone’s GPS hardware to help administrators determine if a student is on campus and whether or not they’ve actually been going to class.

[Mainichi Daily via IntoMobile]

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4 Responses to “Japanese university using free iPhones to monitor students”

  1. pbeard says:

    Just a nit. Gakuin means University in Japanese. So “Aoyama University” would be the correct way to translate the name of the school.

  2. Budi Putra says:

    pbeard: Thanks for the correction :-) Really appreciated.

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