Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices
Or, as the hip folks call them, iPhones:
The faculty began providing Apple iPhone 3Gs to all 550 staff and students Friday, using the GPS function to determine whether they are in school or not. The university will initiate full operation of the system in the autumn. The school also has plans to expand their use to setting simple tests and questionnaires, submitting homework and reviewing class video materials.
The university is to pay the basic charges itself, ensuring no extra financial burdens will fall on students.
[via Asiajin]
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Is truancy and issue for Universities in Japan?
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The question would be:
If I were a student going off campus without permission, WHY would I take it with me? Leave the sucker in the dorm room!
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The title of this article is misleading.
The students of Aoyama Gakuin’s School of Social Informatics are allowed to use iPhone for attendance reporting, lecture podcasting and having online examination.
They don’t have to carry it all the time and they don’t need permission to go off-campus. It just prevents 代返 (answering a roll call for another).
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Then you just give it to your friend to take to class.
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Even though it breaks a few privacy issues here and there, I wouldn’t mind getting one for free
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stupidest idea/biggest waste of money ever.
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I wonder how the school’s going to be able to pay for all these…
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its a very rich school alot of japanese celebrities go there so its very prestigious
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just some lame attempt to advertise the iphone in japan
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i’m sure apple will cover all the costs, they just see it as an opportunity to advertise the iphone in japan.
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Will it be easier and cheaper to use Laptop instead?
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Welcome human tracking…, how can people accept this?.
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a gps equipped laptop, always powered on?
i want to see the battery nutty ^^
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Japan has such nice cell phones! This is just a play by Apple to get people to use an iphone in Japan. I’m sure Japan’s top cell phone can run circles around the iphone.
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Wow, that’s incredibly stupid.
Or it would be, if it weren’t a big marketing thing by Apple.
Well, at least the students get some kind of smartphone for free, although there are better ones.
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if their gunna force ‘em have them wear those annoying anklets i mean i think their illegal but they’ll get over it plus it means that they can’t just leave it behind and as a bonus the people who moniter it can see what their up to XD
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AP reports that Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards. That’s verging on cheating since attendance is a key requirement for graduation here.
If attendance is a key requirement for graduation, then Japanese universities should give graduation certificates to all the desks and chairs – they have perfect attendance records!
How about requiring students to demonstrate they’ve actually learned something?
How about making courses more interesting?
Subsidization usually ends in tears.
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