Ever since Duke University announced a year ago that it would give iPods to all incoming freshmen, the institution’s project has been watched with interest. Was the project the wave of the future or a gimmick?

Duke already announced that it would scale back the project for the coming academic year, giving out the iPods only to undergraduates taking courses for which Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology has approved the professors’ use of the devices. On Wednesday, the university released a detailed analysis of how the grander experiment went with all freshmen.

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